SandUhr

By Jochen Voss, last updated 2011-08-31

Introduction

SandUhr is an alarm clock, which is designed as an hourglass. The program uses the X Window System and the GNOME desktop environment. The alarm is delivered to you by either ringing the console bell, by playing a sound file, or by starting an external program of your choice.

The program is fully integrated into the GNOME application framework.

It uses the GNOME help system to provide an extensive manual.
Use of CORBA: The program features a full-grown CORBA interface. So you may control the SandUhr from within your own programs or plug in custom alarm actions.
It has support for the GNOME window manager hints.
Drag and drop: you may drop a color onto the timer to change the sand's visual appearance.

SandUhr was implemented by Jochen Voss.

Download

sanduhr version 1.93, 2004-08-14 (experimental version)

This is a preview of the GNOME-2 port of SandUhr and also includes some preparations for theme support (try the command sanduhr -t steel). Thanks to Jens Koerber for sending patches.

archive: sanduhr-1.93.tar.gz (759KB)
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sanduhr version 1.92, 2004-08-09 (experimental version)

archive: sanduhr-1.92.tar.gz (777KB)
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sha1: 6da9e22c57fee56f1e0e9e63ad68cbd0982bd21a
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sanduhr version 1.0, 2002-04-09 (stable version)

This is the GNOME 1 version of sanduhr. It is quite outdated by now.

archive: sanduhr-1.0.tar.gz (712KB)
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sha1: 5bdf748239e5372444febd4d755f517554bdfc5f
md5: 87746631a820029501a50b4cf0d0a6ec

Please mail any suggestions and bug reports to Jochen Voss <voss@seehuhn.de>. Your message should include the SandUhr version number, as obtained by the command sanduhr --version.