Hello. I hacked up this script for i3blocks (or i3xrocks if you use Regolith like me). What it does is count time up so I know when I was sitting too much and should go stretch and have a glass of water. You can even pause the timer! Wow!
Left clicking on it resets the timer. Right or middle click will toggle pause.
The Pomodoro Technique is also nice. Use it.
I believe you have some kind of Python 3. Clone/download this script, make sure it's executable, and then in your i3blocks or i3xrocks config do something like this:
[timerthing]
command=/home/amir/dev/i3blockstimerthing/i3blockstimerthing.py
interval=1
I put it just before my [time] block so I can be happier with my life.
Now restart something and you should see it.
The script saves a file with the timestamp along with the timer's state. This is used to calculate how much time passed since the save and that's what you see on the bar. When paused, it saves the seconds count of the moment along an indication of the paused state. When toggled back, it calculates a new "start" timestamp relative to the seconds count.
This file is by default saved into /tmp so I don't pollute your home folder (how considerate of me!). You can change that with an I3BLOCKSTIMERTHING_FILE environment variable which is easily passed-through from your i3blocks config:
[i3blockstimerthing]
command=/home/amir/dev/i3blockstimerthing/i3blockstimerthing.py
interval=1
I3BLOCKSTIMERTHING_FILE=/home/amir/.i3blockstimerthing
Saving the file in your home folder makes it persist between reboots which is super-awesome(!).
When the counter is over 25 minutes, it shows as red. You can disable this behavior with something like POMODORO_TIMER=0 in the config file (next to I3BLOCKSTIMERTHING_FILE for example).
- Configurable filename for keeping timer start, allowing to keep the timer running even after restatrts
- Be red and sad when >25m, should also be configurable for on/off and the time passed for when to shout at you
- Better python-foo
- Customizable formatting of the text
- Does anyone want this to run for days? hours? if so, support h:mm:ss formats :) and not only m:ss (thanks AdrianoFerrari)
- I think that's it, I'm very proud of myself.