Re: [orca-list] OT, Alarmclocks that work with orca in Arch-linux and friends

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

Sorry the first message wne out with incomplete subject.
Anyway, an update:
alarm-clock-applet is working fine in my fluxbox based GUI no panel, so there are for sure three good 
accessible options for arch and manjaro users, 
F123, Sonar and similar as well of course.




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  B. Henry wrote:
Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 12:28:13AM -0500

> This is only barely on topic, but potentially very useful for Orca users who run Arch or one of its spins, 
> i.e. Manjaro and family.
> A year or year and a half ago I searched the repos and AUR for alarmclocks to try for accessiblity, and 
> asked some Talking Arch users for suggestions 
> and came up with blanks. The only thing available was the gnome panel applett I think, and at some point 
> one for mate. I'm assuming these are 
> accessible, and think I've tested both, but not on arch perhaps, but do not remember for sure. 
> I tried hacking together an import of an alarmclock I used on Uuntu, but it did not work for me.
> Well now I decided to look again, and good news. Besides a couple of QT apps I've not yet tested, there are 
> three options that should met most user's 
> needs. 
> I've tested two with good results, and the 3rd is the one I tried to import last ear with negative results 
> which I'll try later although it runs best as 
> a panel applet, and I'm not using any accessible panel with my environment.
> First is a program in the AUR called amazingly alarm-clock...lol
> It is very easy to configure, comes with a default bell sound, but can be configured to play a sound file 
> of your choice, and can also show text 
> messages either in dialogs or pop-ups. It has a scheduler, snooze and a time out can be set, colors can be 
> configured as well as I remember.
> Then I found a C>LI option that works in terminals or pure CLI consoles. It's a bash script that uses 
> mplayer by default, but can be configured to use 
> other media players. It's just a one off alarm as written, with some options that can be configured on the 
> command line or set in a configuration file. 
> The basic comand is just shalarm, (that's the package name),
>  so for example
> shalarm 08:20
> will sound an alarm at 8 20 in the morning. It uses a 24 hour clock always BTW. You can set it to play a 
> stream or sound file if you wish instead of the 
> default sound, and I've tested, it can be backgrounded e.g. 
> shalarm 23:24&
> to play an alarm at eleven twenty-four at night. You will have to type fg to interact with the alarm to 
> shut it off, but should both see the message if 
> you have a message configured and hear the alrm with it backgrounded however, oh, it can also use fortune 
> to show you an inspirational bit or some smutt 
> or 
> what ever in the morning.
>
> The 3rd program, one I like a lot in Unity, Gnome, etc, (used it in mate as well), is called 
> alarm-clock-applet. I'll try it with out any panel later to see if itworks correctly.
> The other one that may be worth while is called qtalarm. It use qt5. I'll see about testing it as well I 
> reckon, but may not get to it.
> Don't bother with something called clockywock, an ncurses clocki/alarm. It spews a bunch of chars that much 
> flash, or just are reannounced as the clock 
> changes, and I don't even know what it's supposed to do in the way of alarms, i.e. are they audio or just 
> visual. Not usable with a screenreader anyway, 
> well maybe one can blank outmost of it with speakup windows, but I'm not going to bother trying.
> HTH
>
>
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