TIMEX
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NAME
timex - a manager for time lists
SYNOPSIS
timex
[-toolkitoption ...] [-option ...] [file to edit]
DESCRIPTION
The
timex
program displays a list of projects, with an elapsed-time clock for each
project. The clock ajadecent to the currently highlighted project will be
running, showing the time used as HH:MM.
It also saves the stuff to a file for each day.
The day is called YYYY-MM-DD, and is located in the $HOME/.timex directory.
If you don't like this, set the environment variable TIMEXDIR to the
directory you want instead.
If it is given a filename, it tries to locate this in the ~/.timex directory
and gives you a chance to edit it. When doing this, "save" and "load" buttons
appear, together with the filename, and it does NOT count the time.
It reads the projects from the file "projectlist" in the ~/.timex directory.
The auxillary PERL program "sumtimex" may be used to sum the files to
give an hours-worked list for each week.
To the right of the command box is a counter that lists how much time has
passed, in the format "HH:MM[+-]MM". The last number is how many minutes you
have added or subtracted since TIMEX started.
COMMANDS
The command buttons available are:
- quit
-
Self-explanatory
- +
-
Add 5 minutes to current project
- -
-
Subtract 5 minutes from current project
- add project
-
Give a name that will be added to the projectlist
The new project is added after the currently selected project; if there
is no selected project, it is added as the first project.
- edit project
-
Change the time worked on the project. There is also a button within
this dialog box for
deleting it from the projectlist.
- pause
-
Stop counting the time.
OPTIONS
timex
accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options along with the
additional options listed below:
- -help
-
This option indicates that a brief summary of the allowed options should be
printed on the standard error. NOT IMPLEMENTED YET.
- -pi, +pi
-
Turns off (or on) displaying of the current project in the icon name
- -ip
-
Icon prefix string, to avoid the timex icon jumping up and down in
a sorted TWM iconbox when the project changes
- -sp
-
Start in paused mode (no active project)
- -dir
-
Work in another Timex directory
The following standard X Toolkit command line arguments are commonly used with
timex:
- -bg color
-
This option specifies the color to use for the background of the window.
The default is white.
- -display host:display
-
This option specifies the X server to contact.
- -xrm resourcestring
-
This option specifies a resource string to be used.
X DEFAULTS
This program uses the X Toolkit and Athena widgets.
The class name for the application is Timex.
It understands all of the core resource names and
classes.
There are a number of options that can be set by resources; read the
app-defaults file for details.
SEE ALSO
X(1), xrdb(1), sumtimex(1)
BUGS
You cannot choose the name of the projectlist.
The + and - buttons have only 5-minute increments.
The documentation doesn't tell you about the app-defaults.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1990-1993, Harald Tveit Alvestrand
AUTHORS
Harald Tveit Alvestrand (DELAB, SINTEF, Norway)
E-mail: Harald.T.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- COMMANDS
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- OPTIONS
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- X DEFAULTS
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- SEE ALSO
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- BUGS
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- COPYRIGHT
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- AUTHORS
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