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Hi - I don't use either ktimer or garm (because I don't use KDE or gnome - I guess they're an alarm and a timer program?)
However, here's what I do use in the console, and they make great automatic replacements - you might want to check them out.
at: specify a command at time.
eg $ echo "xmms [file]" | at 05:00 #Defaults to next day if passed
$ atq # lists the at jobs
$ atrm N #remove job N
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# Crontab for alarm scheduling:
# /etc/crontab is a table of 'alarms' at the specified time/date/calendar interval, it will run what you tell it.
$ crontab -e # Edit you crontab file: it's a really great simple method of automating alarms, and once you get it, you're unix hardcore (sort of!). Really it's not very daunting, and very neat : do a quick google search for crontab.
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$ time cat
#Time is a program that tells you the amount of time it took to run a command (eg. time mozilla: exits when you close it). To stop the 'stopwatch', hit ctrl-D.
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$ sleep Nh Nm Ns # sleep for n seconds/minutes etc. Quite useful for setting quick alarms (eg. sleep 30m && xmms file). I use it all the time.
The terminal can be quite useful and quick, and it means you don't have to windows perpetually displayed : you can stick all commands into the background by adding '&', and close the console
eg.
$ sleep 10s && xmms file &
$ exit
So everything is very clean and automatic.
Last edited by riotxix; 02-17-2006 at 09:38 PM.
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