terminal timer command

$ sleep 60; gmessage -bg RED -geometry 800x600 -center "Time is up." & echo "Time is up." | festival --tts

sleep 60 -> 60sec waiting.
gmessage -> display messagebox
echo "something" | festival --tts  -> Text to speech

Enabling systray in Ubuntu 11.10 Unity

1.


$ gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist


['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Wine', 'scp-dbus-service', 'Update-notifier']


$ gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Wine', 'scp-dbus-service', 'Update-notifier', 'DaumCloud']"


-> then re-login


2.


install dconf-tools


$ dconf-editor
-> desktop > unity > panel > enable the notification area


$ dconf-editor
> 

Ubuntu 11.10 unity sucks!

This unity interface is ... sucks !

Flexibility has gone... customizing become more difficult....

Linux mint or debian.. I'm considering..