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Chess007
10-03-2007, 08:03 AM
Is there a linux alarm program? For example, a program that I can set to go off at a certain time and play a sound file. It would be a good way to wake up. :) My current alarm (digital clock) goes off after a little bit. This would be for my xubuntu box.
wheelnut
10-03-2007, 09:53 AM
Could use at or crontab to set them up. If you wish to use a graphical frontend, there is something in the KDE GUI, I think is called "remind"...
xdakorx
10-03-2007, 10:28 AM
XMMS has an alarm plugin
TheCatMan
10-03-2007, 11:44 AM
Agreed, XMMS-alarm works well if your computer's always on. Another method is to put your whole system's power supply on a timer, set the bios to be 'on after power failure,' and add something to the last startup script to play the sound as soon as it's booted. I used that method for quite a while, although the noise of the fan and monitor powering up always woke me before it had a chance to play anything.
blackbelt_jones
10-03-2007, 11:55 AM
These days I use the xmms plugin, but I used to use the "at" command. It works well with Debian, but there were some problems when I tried to use it with SUSE.

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=a/at

The first time I used the at command was a revelation for me, because it was the first time I had actually written a kind of script-- just a single command in a text file-- that my computer automatically executed at a time predetermined by "at".
bwkaz
10-03-2007, 06:08 PM
gkrellm also has a gkrellm-reminder plugin that can do just about anything on just about any schedule.

(That's what people on this forum suggested about 4-5 years ago when I asked a very similar question. :))
voidinit
10-03-2007, 07:18 PM
I roll like this


sleep $(( 8 * 3600 )) && exec < /boot/vmlinuz > /dev/audio 2>&1


8 hours alseep, and then wake up to sound of linux! :D
irlandes
10-05-2007, 10:17 PM
Kalarm is what you are looking for. It takes zillions of alarms, as short a time as one minute or as long as, um, I am guessing hundreds of years. And, yes, it takes sound files. Autorecurrence. End on date.

I have seen nothing like it. And, config files can be saved and installed on new machine.

Of course it may only work in KDE for all I know. I do not plan to ever have a machine without Kalarm if I can make it happen.
folkert
10-06-2007, 01:57 PM
Another method is to put your whole system's power supply on a timer

or you could set an auto start time in your bios.