Pomodoro extension for gnome-shell

• Provides a countdown timer in the gnome-shell top panel
• Keeps track of completed 25 minute cycles

You can read more on pomodoro technique here.

Dependencies

• Gnome-shell 3.4 (Our 0.5 release supported gnome-shell <= 3.2)
• Optional LibKeybinder3 for global key bindings

Installation

Web based (recommended)

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/53/pomodoro/

Archlinux

Get from AUR

Gentoo

Available at Maciej's overlay here. Instructions here.

Direct from source

• Get zipball

  • Stable | Gnome-shell >= 3.4
  • Unstable - Master branch

• Build it and install

    ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr  
    make zip  
    unzip \_build/gnome-shell-pomodoro.0.6.zip -d ~/.local/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]  
  

  • To install it system-wide, you could do:

    sudo make install

• Enable the extension using gnome-tweak-tool (Shell Extensions -> Pomodoro Extension) or via following commandline:

    gsettings get org.gnome.shell enabled-extensions  
    gsettings set org.gnome.shell enabled-extensions [<value from get above>, [email protected]]  
  

• Press Alt + F2, and r in command to restart gnome-shell

Usage

• Use toggle switch (or Ctrl+Alt+P) to toggle timer on/off
• You can configure behavior of the extension in Options menu

For a list of configurable options, please refer wiki

License

GPL3. See COPYING for details.

Thanks

• Contributors: https://github.com/codito/gnome-shell-pomodoro/contributors

Changelog

Unstable

• Czech translation
• Support for gnome-shell 3.6

Version 0.6

• New translation: Persian (thanks @arashm)
• Feature: Support for gnome-shell 3.4
• Breaking change: Dropped support for older gnome-shell versions due to incompatible APIs
• Feature: Support for "Away from desk" mode
• Feature: Ability to change IM presence status based on pomodoro activity
• Fixed issues #38, #39, #41, #42, #45 and more

Version 0.5

• Bunch of cleanups, user interface awesomeness [Issue #37, Patch from @kamilprusko]
• Config options are changed to more meaningful names [above patch]

Version 0.4

• Sound notification at end of a pomodoro break [Issue #26, Patch from @kamilprusko]
• System wide config file support [Patch from @mgrela]
• Support to skip breaks in case of persistent message [Patch from @amanbh]

• Some minor bug fixes, and keybinder3 requirement is now optional