Alarm Clock Applet

"Repeat every N minutes" option

Asked by Sergey Moskovkin

Can you add "repeat every N minutes" option for timer alarm?

Thank you.

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Johannes H. Jensen (joh) said : 		#1

Could you come with an example use case where such a feature would be wanted? I really don't see the need for yet another repeat option...

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Best manishmahabir (manishmahabir) said : 		#2

@lvlo
I think this can already be done through gnome-schedule (a GUI for cron).
It is in the repo try it.

@johannes
i use this feature to update my world-weather wallpaper every hour.
http://www.arsgeek.com/2008/08/20/how-to-get-updated-world-weather-maps-as-your-desktop-background-in-ubuntu/

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Sergey Moskovkin (lvlo) said : 		#3

Thanks manishmahabir, that solved my question.