From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Timer doesn't seem to do anything Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:17:48 -0400 Message-ID: <10676.1249575468@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <87fxc5eyou.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MZ6dQ-0006J3-Cc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:20:12 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MZ6dL-0006H7-KE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:20:11 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50560 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZ6dL-0006H3-Ba for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:20:07 -0400 Received: from vms173001pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.1]:13727) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MZ6dK-0003Ba-Is for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:20:06 -0400 Received: from gamaville.dokosmarshall.org ([98.110.172.159]) by vms173001.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KNY00AXLQLN7Y1D@vms173001.mailsrvcs.net> for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:17:47 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: Message from Paul Mead of "Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:42:25 BST." <87fxc5eyou.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Paul Mead Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Paul Mead wrote: > I was just trying out the new function for setting a timer for a heading > and am wondering if I'm missing something. > > I go to a heading and type C-c C-x ; or just ; from the agenda, and I > get a prompt 'Time out in (min)?'. I enter the time (to test, I used 1) > and..... nothing. > > I also tried M-x org-timers-show-remaining-time and it says 'No timer > set' > > So, what am I doing wrong here? > Probably nothing. The default notification method is a message in the minibuffer/echo area that can go away very quickly, so you gotta look carefully and just at the right time to catch it. If you have the notify-send program installed (on Ubuntu, it's part of the libnotify-bin package, which depends on the libnotify1 package), then that is used for notification: it's much more visible, but it too goes away quickly, so if you are looking away from your screen for a few seconds, you are likely to miss it. I described a way to set it up so that notifications make use of your appointment mechanism: there have been several descriptions of how to do the latter on this list, and their great advantage is that the notification stays put until you do something about it. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/14349/focus=15971 The whole thread is at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/14349 HTH, Nick