Free timer software for linux

Timer is a simple countdown timer. Just set the time You want to countdown and press the start button (green tick). After the time runs out, a bell will ring.

WMTimer is a dockable alarm clock for WindowMaker which can be run in alarm, countdown timer, or chronograph mode. In alarm or timer mode, you can either execute a command or sound the system bell when the time is reached.
Installation:
This has only been tested and compiled on i386 Linux machines.
Go to wmtimer directory and type:
make
copy the wmtimer binary to a directory in your path.
Wmtimer is configurable through the command line or the GTK GUI.
Enhancements:
- Fixed a bug in the the command line parsing where the color option would conflict with the -c option in some cases.

Timer Applet is a countdown timer applet for the GNOME panel.
Main features:
- Quickly set a timer and the applet will notify you when time is up
- Add multiple Timer Applets to the panel to have different timers running simultaneously
- Create presets for quick access to frequently-used times
- Each applet remembers your last-used timer, even after you log out
- User interface follows the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines
Translations: Basque, French, German, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.

JRelaxTimer is a timer (or alarm clock) that allows Web-users to open specific Web-pages at selected time intervals. JRelaxTimer, for example, could be installed on the company Intranet and used by employees to execute specific tasks at selected time intervals.
Built as a browser-independent and highly-configurable Java Applet, JRelaxTimer could be easily customized with your own graphics and time format to achieve an unlimited variety of appearances and behaviors. JRelaxTimer includes by default 232 images (13 different sets of digits).
JRelaxTimer is composed by some independent components that could be showed or hidden by option (logo, buttons, displays, selectors)
Main features:
- browser-independent, works fine with any browser that support at least Java 1.1
- support two different page selection methods
- customizable background colors
- customizable background images
- customizable graphic images for digits and symbols
- 232 ready to use images (13 sets of digits)
- support for image transparencies
Enhancements:
- The license was changed to the GPL.

high-resolution-timer is a library with Java and C++ wrappers to implement high . These timers can be used, for example, to count the ticks when doing performance analysis.
high-resolution-timer exploits the system dependent timers/clocks and provides a timer-like interface to the same. The attached file has build scripts for Linux and Solaris. There is also a Java wrapper over the library, which uses JNI to use the timer interfaces.
Enhancements:
- The library is a basic approach to design a base for the performance library.
- It has not yet taken into consideration the details of library preloads, etc.
- At load time, the library initializes itself with the timer with the least avg resolution.
- At unload time, the library cleans up by freeing any allocated memory.
- The library provides a getErrorMessage function to let the user know the detailed report of the error.
- The library exports start / stop JNI wrappers .

DONT Let It Burn! (1-click Timer) script is just a very basic, 1-click alarm clock. You set the number of minutes and at that time a sound (which you need to set) will be played. No application is started, the sound is played through the aplay command, so its independent from the player you have installed.

Why?

I know there are tons of much better alarm clocks out there. In fact, this is not supposed to be an alarm clock. Its just a sort of kitchen timer, for computer addicted.

My problem was that i was burning all my food (kinda following, too literally, what Usher says in his song "Let it burn!").

After throwing something in the oven or putting on the cookers i use to go back working on the PC and every time i forget about the food. I cant be bother to set a "full alarm clock", need something REALLY fast that reminds me about the food just some minutes later (and if possible i prefer that such reminder is not the horn of the firemen coming to extinguish the fire i caused)

Installation:

Place dont_let_it_burn.desktop in /home/YOUR_USERNAME/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus

Place dont_let_it_burn.sh in /home/YOUR_USERNAME/bin

Place dont_let_it_burn.au in /home/YOUR_USERNAME/bin

IMPORTANT: you need to point to a valid audio file, supported bu the apply command (wav or au for example). I have included a small sample file, dont_let_it_burn.au, if you place it in the bin directory then you dont need to do anything else. If you want another file just modify dont_let_it_burn.sh setting a valid path in the variable FULL_PATH_TO_AUDIO_FILE

GnoTime provides a to-do list organizer and project timer.
GnoTime is a to-do list tracker and project timer with a built-in invoice generator. It allows users to keep track of how much time they have spent working on particular tasks, maintain a diary of that work, and create invoices with task-specific billing fees and rates.
Main features:
- Multiple To-Do Lists that can be sorted by the priority/importance of the tasks in the list. The to-do items can be organized into categories, arranged in a hierarchical way. This makes it easy to maintain both business and personal items in the list, or handle many different projects, while keeping them separate from each other.
- A pair of Diary/Journal areas that can be used to keep long and detailed notes and diary entries. The project description area allows a multi-paragraph description or status to be typed in. The diary area allows day-to-day notes to be associated with a set of timestamps, so that one has a record of what one did on any given day.
- A Running Timer, with time totals, for each project/task. One starts the timer by clicking on a task: it will measure the amount of time that you are in front of the computer. If it detects that the keyboard/mouse are idle, it will stop the clock. If the clock stays stopped too long, it will nag you to start it up again. You can view time totals by day, week, month or year.
- A Billing Status dialog for each diary entry. You can mark any given diary entry as bill-able/non-bill-able, paid or pending, and set the billing rate. Each project can also be marked up with a set of project-planning information: planed start, end and due dates, hours to finish, percent-complete. This is in addition to assigning an urgency/importance to each project, as well as a status (completed/in-progress not-started/canceled).
- A half-dozen different HTML Reports that can slice and dice your lists. Theres a Journal report that shows all of the diary entries for one given project. Theres an Invoice report that summarizes the time spent on each entry, and computes a dollar amount for it. Theres a Status Report that prints the title of each project, together with the paragraph-long descriptions of each. Theres a ToDo report, which prints only the project title, the importance/urgency, and the completed/in-progress/not-started status. The Daily report summarizes the total time spent on a day-by-day basis, and lists each of the projects that were worked on in a given day. Each of these reports can be customized. And, because theyre HTML, you can even publish them as web pages. (Yes, Ive thought of using GnoTime as a weblog management/publishing tool).
Enhancements:
- Build against QOF version 0.6.0, if available.
- Fix issue where yelp doesnt display an entry for gnotime when browsing because it doesnt recognize the entry
- Fix sourceforge bug [ 799077 ] projects blanked when first time user tries to sort
- fix broken leap-year calculation, leading to bugs sourceforge bugs [ 983408 ] and [ 1114205 ]
- Fix crash due to hoverhelp timer popping after a report window is closed.
- Change activity report to display date/time in two distinct html table columns (prettier alignment)
- Bug fix: sourceforge bug report fixed [ 877193 ] toolbar wont go to/stay in text-only mode
- Bug fix: editing time brings up wrong report
- fedora .spec file is out of date and rpm cannot build rpm
- Fix bug involving copy of old gnotime files to a new machine on which gnotime has never been run before.
- Fix sourceforge bug [ 1276458 ] "Empty" appears in diary entry
- Apply sourceforge patch 1176719 Extensible fix for gtkhtml3 building
- Apply 1171394 Adds separate timeout for "No Project" dialog
- Apply sourceforge patch 085911 Add "-" value for status field
- Apply sourceforge patch 074658 Add wordwrapping to diary entry boxes
- Apply sourceforge patch 1074458 Fix a crash when invoking help
- Apply sourceforge patch 1038701 Fix to Activity item in popup menu
- Apply sourceforge patch 1027582 Build system update for qof inclusion
- Fix idle time so that it works with Linux 2.6 kernel /proc/interrupts
- use %e to see the estimated sizing of a project in the logfiles
- Apply new pt_BR translation from Goedson Teixeira Paixao
- Fix for Debian Bug #250776, change widget visibility in the edit interval dialog

Untie is a small tool used to create namespaces and lauch processes in them. It uses Linuxs virtualization features.
The project allows the user to call clone(2) with any flag as a parameter. Note that superuser privileges are needed to create namespaces.
Untie is a small tool used to create namespaces and lauch processes in them. It uses Linuxs virtualization features. Basically it allows to call clone(2) with any flag as parameter. Note that superuser privileges are needed to create namespaces.
Here is a sample usage with the mount namespace:
[root ~]# untie -h
untie 0.1
Usage: untie [OPTIONS]... [COMMAND]...
-h, --help Print help and exit
-V, --version Print version and exit
--mount New mount namespace (default=off)
--uname New uname (default=off)
--ipc New IPC context (default=off)
--mask=MASK Pass user defined flag
[root ~]# mkdir dir1 dir2
[root ~]# touch dir1/file1 dir2/file2
[root ~]# untie --mount
A new shell has been spawned by untie
[root ~]# mount --bind dir1 dir2
[root ~]# ls dir1 dir2
dir1:
file1
dir2:
file1
[root ~]# exit
Back to the original namespace
[root ~]# ls dir1 dir2
dir1:
file1
dir2:
file2
[root ~]#
In this "demo" a new mount namespace is created and a bind mount is made in this new namespace. This mount is invisible to other namespaces. Leaving the namespace destroys it and cancels the mount.
Enhancements:
- The possibility of running a program as a daemon, the setting of an alarm timer, the nice level setting, and changing the scheduling policy as well as its priority were added.