OT: Linux Alarm Clock Suggestions?

[paul cooke]

On Friday 10 June 2005 08:50, word_virus wrote:
> > peter at prospero:~$ apt-cache search xmms | grep alarm
> >
> > xmms-alarm - xmms general plugin for using xmms as an alarm clock.
> >
> > peter at prospero:~$ apt-cache show xmms-alarm
> >
> > Package: xmms-alarm
> >
> > Priority: optional
> >
> > Section: universe/utils
> >
> > Installed-Size: 124
> >
> >
> >
> > Works fine - just set your time and preferred mp3 or ogg file and off
> > you go....
>
> Haha! Shoulda looked for that myself, I've been using remind to call a
> shell script to launch XMMS at a certain time.  I need to get out more.

that's probably much better... as you don't have to remember to leave XMMS 
open.