Is there a Pomodoro app available?

Question

Is there a pomodoro app that's available for Ubuntu 12.04 that can be installed using sudo or from the package manager?

Answer 1

Tomate

If you have installed the program using the old ppa repository uninstall the old version first. If you use an Ubuntu-based distro, such as Mint, manually set the RELEASE variable to the Ubuntu version number, such as 16.04, rather than running the sed script bellow.

RELEASE=`sed -n 's/VERSION_ID="\(.*\)"/\1/p' /etc/os-release`
sudo wget -O- http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/eliostvs:/tomate/xUbuntu_$RELEASE/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo bash -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/eliostvs:/tomate/xUbuntu_$RELEASE/ ./' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tomate.list"
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install tomate-gtk

Answer 2

gnome-shell-pomodoro

For Gnome-shell. You can use this extension in GNOME shell for pomodoro indicator. It works out of the box in many distros, like Ubuntu 17.10 (which doesn't come with Unity anymore).

Old versions were installed through:

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

Current version that works on my Ubuntu 20 is install-able through apt:

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-pomodoro

Homepage with instructions for installing on different OS distributions and versions: http://gnomepomodoro.org/

malev's pomodoro-indicator

For Unity. The pomodoro-indicator as referenced by the other answerer doesn't work straight out of the box. We first have to fix the icon so it appears on the Unity panel.

Follow the commands and hopefully it works for you:

wget https://launchpad.net/pomodoro-indicator/trunk/0.0.2/+download/pomodoro-indicator-0.0.2.tar.gz
wget https://launchpad.net/pomodoro-indicator/trunk/0.0.1/+download/pomodoro-indicator-0.0.1.tar.gz
tar xvf pomodoro-indicator-0.0.2.tar.gz
tar xvf pomodoro-indicator-0.0.1.tar.gz
cp -R pomodoro-indicator-0.0.2/* pomodoro-indicator-0.0.1/
cd pomodoro-indicator-0.0.1; gedit setup.py

In line 112, remove # from the following line:

#package_data = {"pomodoro": ["images/*.png", ]}

Save the file.

sudo python setup.py install
pomodoro-indicator

Pomodoro indicator will now appear in the Unity panel.

Reference

• https://answers.launchpad.net/pomodoro-indicator/+question/198506

Answer 3

Atareao's pomodoro-indicator

Having tried others, I recommend Atareao's Pomodoro Indicator App.

Why? It is simple, beautiful, configurable, has been tested in ubuntu 14.04, 14.10, 15.04, 16.04. It has a PPA and the developer is known for writing quality indicator apps such as my-weather-indicator.

My favourite thing is that the icon changes to reflect how much time is left. Here's a time-lapse screen capture I made:

This is what the preferences look like (polar night gtk theme):

Installation: Copy and paste the following in the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pomodoro-indicator

Answer 4

Tomighty

Download link <-- Link does not work (404)

Tomighty can't be installed from package manager (it's java applet), but it's my favorite because it has an indicator with countdown timer right on taskbar. The downside is that indicator background looks ugly when idle because of white background.

So I edited default png and filled it with ambiance background color. Save the image as "tomato-24.png" and put it tomighty's .jar file. https://i.sstatic.net/r1a5Z.png

Answer 5

TeamViz Lite (or Pro) app (proprietary software). it's available for Ubuntu, for more information see this downloads link.

Last update: Jul 13, 2013.

Answer 6

Someone has already mentioned Tomighty here but I've gone ahead and packaged it for Ubuntu here

To install

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pwr22/tomighty
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tomighty

Answer 7

It's not exactly an app, but I've posted an answer to a similar question on Super User That basically revolved around using the terminal to program your Pomodoros.

You'd be basically issuing the following terminal command to start a Pomodoro:

sleep 1500 && notify-send -u critical "break"

In order to introduce breaks, you'd be running the following:

sleep 300 && notify-send -u critical "back to work"  # a short, 5-minute break
sleep 900 && notify-send -u critical "back to work"  # a long, 15-minute break

That's the gist of it. You can find more details here.

Answer 8

The PomoDoneApp looks good. Worked fine in Ubuntu 16.04, don't know about Ubuntu 12.04.

Answer 9

Another option: Google timer

Pros: no package required to install, no dependencies, no manually creating a Desktop icon (Zeegaree).

Cons: requires internet connection

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=google+timer

Answer 10

I just created a new minimalistic pomodoro counter. See https://bitbucket.org/dvtomas/osd-pomodoro

A simple, ultra-lightweight, transparent, unobtrusive pomodoro countdown for Linux. Always on top, yet so small that it doesn't really bother you. And if it does for a moment, just send it a UNIX signal to toggle visibility.

Answer 11

XFCE4: xfce4-timer-plugin (~500kB for XFCE users)

Add the plugin to panel. Add a timer for 25 minutes in preferences.

If you also want a sound, use any of these: Link.

Answer 12

pomelloapp.com

If you are a Trello user, then you should definitely check Pomello. I'm using it on CentOS.

Is proprietary software, electron-based. Is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by or in any way officially connected to Trello, Inc.