Good God, I found an Alarm Clock for Linux!

[TechSonic]

Windows XP is going to miss me, I finally found an alarm clock program to replace PC Beeper on Windows. I did a lot of searches for applications and finally found a how to for XMMS alarm clock plugin. Now I can wake up every morning listing to Golden Earring - Twilight Zone

Why this song? Well.... Every morning I wake up dazed and confused for a few minutes. I don't know where I am until I wait it out for a minute. I get a good amount of time to sleep but I never dream anymore. The best sleep time is when you enter REM sleep. Rapid Eye Motion. That is when you start to dream!

I figured sense It's all confusing at first, that song would be ironic every morning and never get old. That and I got Ozzy Osboune - Parry Mason and ELO - Don't Bring Me Down in there for wake up music.

Now that I don't need Windows XP for anything. What should I tinker in it? Should I try and exploit an explorer crash run by repeating shortcuts to shortcuts on the desktop or should I cram miss matched drivers until it just locks up and wont boot anymore?

[Lovechild]

you could also do it the cli way and utilise the "at" command, maybe combined with cron to ensure you get a daily wakeup call.

[TechSonic]

I tried that, something about an error. Oh well XMMS lets me choose what days I want it to alert me or I can set it for all days and alert me at the same time every day.

This way If I have weird hours, I can manually set each day for a different time. XMMS does the job much better.

[psychicdragon]

I Have a file called ~/bin/wakeup that's only 566 bytes.

Example usage:
wakeup 08:30 quodlibet --play

[graabein]

Do you guys sleep with your computer? Seriously... I have a regular alarm clock on my night table and the frigging computer -- with GNU/Linux though, I do love it -- in another room. ;)



Edit: I just realized that this is for when you fall asleep at your computer! Nice one! I can see the need. :D

[endersshadow]

Do you guys sleep with your computer? Seriously... I have a regular alarm clock on my night table and the frigging computer -- with GNU/Linux though, I do love it -- in another room. ;)



Edit: I just realized that this is for when you fall asleep at your computer! Nice one! I can see the need. :D

Or if you're in college and the computer is never more than 3 feet away from your head :lol:

[-Rick-]

KAlarm works for me

[bschuteker]

This sounds pretty cool. I am working in Iraq and leave my laptop on all night with the screen blank. That way people can get a hold of me on IM if need be. I didn't like XMMS for music I choose Amarok instead and love it. I would be interested in setting this up for the alarm clock though. Where did you get the plug in and how do I install it???? Also how do I choose the song?

Thanks in advance,

Bill

[drucer]

Good wake up songs:

- Bob Marley : Get up, stand up (stand up for your rights)
- U2 : Wake up dead man

..what other?

[Lovechild]

I used to wake up to Richard M. Stallman lectures (yes I'm a strange man)

[bschuteker]

well, I found the answer to my own questions. I guess I wrote too soon. The alarm plug-in is in the repo's and a google search will dredge up a how to use it page. I also found how to do it with Amarok (which I still say is a better prog)

http://amarok.kde.org/amarokwiki/index.php/FAQ#How_do_I_use_amaroK_as_an_alarm_clock.3F

Anyways, enjoy,

Ubuntu ROCKS,

Bill

[xequence]

Why this song? Well.... Every morning I wake up dazed and confused for a few minutes.

You could wake up to Led Zeppelin's Dazed And Confused :)

[TechSonic]

When I used Windows, Winamp was my fav Media player. It's only natural to stick with the player XMMS because I've already got a feel for it. The alarm clock setup was easy.

[super]

i use my phone to wake me up in the mornings.


Good wake up songs:

- Bob Marley : Get up, stand up (stand up for your rights)
- U2 : Wake up dead man

..what other?

u2 makes good wake-up music. i currently use 'beautiful day' as my alarm. it puts me in a good mood. :cool:

before that i used 'clocks' by coldplay.

[Cesium]

I like waking up to Rage Against the Machines' "Wake Up."

[towsonu2003]

:lol:
sorry to go off topic, but that's a scary smilie ;)

[geekphreak]

well, I found the answer to my own questions. I guess I wrote too soon. The alarm plug-in is in the repo's and a google search will dredge up a how to use it page. I also found how to do it with Amarok (which I still say is a better prog)

http://amarok.kde.org/amarokwiki/index.php/FAQ#How_do_I_use_amaroK_as_an_alarm_clock.3F

Anyways, enjoy,

Ubuntu ROCKS,

Bill


Actually, you can use amarok's builtin alarm script through GUI, go to Tools -> Script Manager and you should see the list of all scripts currently installed.

I also use weekalarm (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=23160)

[gord]

i just use a regular alarm clock, althlough iv managed to learn howto turn it off without waking up so it don't work very well.

[psychicdragon]

I wake up to Acid Mothers Temple pretty much every week day.

I like to use my computer as an alarm clock because it's slightly more difficult to hit snooze and then not go to school. It still happens though. -_-;

[graabein]

I wake up to Acid Mothers Temple pretty much every week day.

Acid Mothers Temple!! Great band. \\:D/ Is it the chant-song? A particular album?

I could use a timer of some sorts when I have something cooking in the oven so it won't get burned every other time. Maybe a gdesklet will do.

[endersshadow]

sorry to go off topic, but that's a scary smilie ;)

Yeah, I know...I replaced in on my forum with one...um...less creepy...

[TechSonic]

Actually, you can use amarok's builtin alarm script through GUI, go to Tools -> Script Manager and you should see the list of all scripts currently installed.

I also use weekalarm (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=23160)


I tried that one, the alarm didn't go off on the 3 test sounds I did, so I dumped that cheap script. Plus, I hate Amarok, it's got this gui that makes me puke and the fact that it uses more resources then XMMS.

I prefer the XMMS one better.

[adamx40]

Good wake up songs:

- Bob Marley : Get up, stand up (stand up for your rights)
- U2 : Wake up dead man

..what other?

I like to wake up to Adiemus. And using orca to read me the weather forecast for the day.

[/usr/bin/hacked?]

I'm unable to install the plugin on audacious, it says that I need glib installed, but I'm pretty sure that it is installed. I also have a 64bit system, dunno if that matters. plz help! I love this plugin.

[vikrant82]

I have this network of alarms and snoozes spread out over a period of time and a final bang with a siren kind. I bet if anyone can stay asleep with this thing ..

[crimesaucer]

Windows XP is going to miss me, I finally found an alarm clock program to replace PC Beeper on Windows. I did a lot of searches for applications and finally found a how to for XMMS alarm clock plugin. Now I can wake up every morning listing to Golden Earring - Twilight Zone

Why this song? Well.... Every morning I wake up dazed and confused for a few minutes. I don't know where I am until I wait it out for a minute. I get a good amount of time to sleep but I never dream anymore. The best sleep time is when you enter REM sleep. Rapid Eye Motion. That is when you start to dream!

I figured sense It's all confusing at first, that song would be ironic every morning and never get old. That and I got Ozzy Osboune - Parry Mason and ELO - Don't Bring Me Down in there for wake up music.

Now that I don't need Windows XP for anything. What should I tinker in it? Should I try and exploit an explorer crash run by repeating shortcuts to shortcuts on the desktop or should I cram miss matched drivers until it just locks up and wont boot anymore?


The "Exaile!" media player has an alarm clock built into it as one of it's plugins.

[crimesaucer]

Good wake up songs:

- Bob Marley : Get up, stand up (stand up for your rights)
- U2 : Wake up dead man

..what other?

System Of A Down - "Dreaming"

[HermanAB]

Pink Floyd's 'Time', must be the best wake-up call ever. Played loud enough, it will raise the dead.

[tigrezno]

i wake up all days with this song, i bet you'll like it :)

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

[Sand Lee]

Why not just use the alarm-clock package (apt://alarm-clock)? It's in the Intrepid Repos. For Hardy users, http://www.getdeb.net/app/Alarm+Clock . :guitar:

[drascus]

Yeah I was looking for a good alarm clock too. I found this one on Getdeb
http://www.getdeb.net/search.php?keywords=alarm+clock The thing I like is all the options. To log out, shutdown, play a sound or audio file. it's pretty neat. I think that it also could be turned into a time management program if a little more coding was done to it.