What is Khrono?

Khrono is a digital watch, timer and countdown for the KDE desktop, distributed under the GNU Public License. It's a nice utility with many features found on regular timers: lap function, reset, start/stop, audio alarm for countdown. It also supports some customization: you can select colour themes and change the audio file played as the alarm.
Khrono docks on your Kpanel too, and is fully controllable with the mouse through its dock icon. This allows to control Khrono while interacting with another program through the keyboard. As an example, I use Khrono as a timer for my sequencer: I begin the playback of my song on the sequencer, pressing the space bar, and in the same time, I start Khrono's timer with a mouse click on the Kpanel.

Screenshots

Khrono's main window, in countdown mode, showing two "laps" in the bottom right edge.

The option pane: you can choose a colour theme, the audio file to play as the alarm, and the number of repetitions for the alarm.

Download

You can download the source code distribution (tarball or SRPM), or a prebuilt binary (Linux-i386 tarball or RPM).

Latest version

You will need KDE 2.0 libraries and headers, and Qt 2.2 libraries and headers to compile and run Khrono.
Click on the link below to go to the download page:

khrono-2.0

Older versions

(work with KDE 1.x and Qt 1.42 libraries)
Click on the links below to go to the download page:

Install

Source

The installation procedure for the source code distribution is the GNU standard procedure. Decompress the archive in a directory, and, as root, enter the khrono directory and type:


./configure

make

make install

Then, as a user, you should see a Khrono shortcut in the 'Utilities' folder of your Kpanel. If not, try to restart Kpanel.
You can also start Khrono by typing 'khrono' in an xterm.

Binary

Tarball:
To install the binary tar-gz package:

login as root
cd to your KDE directory, pointed by your KDEDIR environment variable (/usr on RedHat and Mandrake 6.0)
untar the package (tar xvzf ~/khrono-x.x.i386.tar.gz)

RPM package:
As root, type:

rpm -Uvh khrono-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm

(Mandrake user example). Then, as a user, you should see a Khrono shortcut in the 'Utilities' folder of your Kpanel. If not, try to restart Kpanel.
You can also start Khrono by typing 'khrono' in an xterm.

Contact, bugs

For any contribution or bug report, contact the author at:
vonarnim@club-internet.fr
or (preferred method) report your questions or bug reports on the SourceForge project page, in the tracker or forum sections.