{"id":9027,"date":"2005-05-31T16:03:54","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T13:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/31\/have-your-breaks-in-time-with-kde\/"},"modified":"2005-06-01T10:01:52","modified_gmt":"2005-06-01T07:01:52","slug":"have-your-breaks-in-time-with-kde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/31\/have-your-breaks-in-time-with-kde\/","title":{"rendered":"Have your breaks in time with KDE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve already talked about KDialog and DCOP<\/a> which are two magic KDE tools that could use more promotion. Today I came across another nice examlpe in this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

#!\/bin\/bash\r\n\r\nPROGRESS=$(kdialog --icon kalarm --title \"Short rest\" \\\r\n    --progressbar \"Take a break...\" 30)\r\n\r\nif [ $PROGRESS ]; then\r\n  for (( i=0; i<30; i++ )); do\r\n    dcop $PROGRESS setProgress $i\r\n    sleep 1\r\n  done\r\n  dcop $PROGRESS close\r\nfi<\/pre>\n
This simple shell script will remind you to have timed 30 second breaks when executed at predefined intervals from KAlarm.  You'll see a nice progress bar while having a break.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
I’ve already talked about KDialog and DCOP which are two magic KDE tools that could use more promotion. Today I came across another nice examlpe in this post. #!\/bin\/bash PROGRESS=$(kdialog –icon kalarm –title “Short rest” \\ –progressbar “Take a break…” 30) if [ $PROGRESS ]; then for (( i=0; i<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62],"tags":[1960,65,66],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","tag-command-line","tag-desktop","tag-kde"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8862,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/04\/22\/kde-pager-progress\/","url_meta":{"origin":9027,"position":0},"title":"KDE pager progress","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 22, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"KDE pager is one of the biggest annoyances for people coming to KDE from AfterStep world. 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