Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > Hi, > > is someone aware of a 'kitchen'-timer applet for gnome? Something small > sitting in the dock that pops up a time entry form when clicked and > notifies the user when that time has come. > > I have already tried timer-applet but this doe not show up in the 'Add > to Panel...' dialog and dies silently when started from the command > line. Anyone succeeded with this? > Have you tried 'KAlarm' which sounds like what you want. I use it for timing things in the kitchen all the time, very good little program which can also play a self-chosen tune if you want it to. But I don't know if it works from the command-line, I've never tried it that way. Sharon. -- 12:25:35 up 18:29, 2 users, load average: 2.33, 2.32, 1.95 A taste of linux http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/efever/index.html efever http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ Fedora Core 3, KDE 3.3.2-1.6.3, OpenOffice 1.1.3 Registered Linux user 334501 Now accepting personal mail for gmail invites