I've gotten fond of tea these days .. especially "Twinnigs earl grey" .. I prefer it seeped for 2.5 minutes .. so I wrote a trivial tea timer to time my teas . The default is 3 minutes . It's convenient as the image chosen gets displayed over screen even if mplayer is playing a movie in full screen.
I'm using Feh which is a fine image viewer. .. cheers.
t=180
if [ $1 ] ; then t=$(echo "$1*60" | bc ) ; fi
t=$(echo $t | awk -F "." '{print $1}')
i=0
echo "$i"
while [ $i -lt $t ] ; do let i=$i+1 ; echo $i ; sleep 1; clear; done
echo " $i seconds"
feh -F ~/tea.jpg
