Hamster is an 'time-tracking applet' for GNOME, and allows a user to monitor time taken on various tasks and can produce various statistics detailing the user's activities.
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TimeTracker app that logs programs
Does anyone know of a time tracker app that logs which program you are using. So, if I'm using LibreOffice it'll log me as working, but then when the focus switches back to chrome, it'll log me as "procrastinating"
Thanks!
(first question ftw!)
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Can't get hamster and getting things gnome integrate
I'm on a 11.10 x64 machine.
When I open a task in gtg, hamaster didn't automatically add if I don't do it manully.
Hamster can read the titles and tags of my tasks.
But when I finish a task in gtg, hamster didn't stop tracking it.
I've add the…
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Hamster Time Tracker Broken After Upgrade to 11.10
After upgrading 11.04 to 11.10 (which was rather bumpy because of a failure with the flash-installer), I can't seem to start hamster-time-tracker.
Output:
user@machine:~$ hamster-time-tracker
Traceback (most recent call last):
File…
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Time tracker for lxde
I have only recently started using lxde. And I am liking it. It is blazing fast, not-at-all resource hungry and just does what I want.
The only thing I am missing is a time tracker tool. I have been using Hamster Time Tracker on gnome for quite some…
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hamster time tracker in kubuntu 20.04
I'm trying to install the hamster time tracker in Kubuntu 20.04, but it seems quite difficult. Has anyone got it working?
hamster itself is not present in the official repos, but I installed hamster-snap from here. That works, but I'd also like to…
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Project Hamster notifications missing on upgrade to 12.04
I have upgraded from an almost default 11.10 install to 12.04. All went well and I can login, logout, etc. without any problem.
One very interesting thing about the Project Hamster notifications, though. I have set Hamster to remind after every 27…
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Where is Hamster time tracker in Bionic?
I can't find Hamster in the repositories for 18.04. Has this package been renamed?
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How to *use* Hamster with the GNOME shell?
I installed hamster-applet and gnome-shell-extensions-hamster. But I can't see how to actually use it efficiently. It looks like this:
How can I start tracking time for a specific project from this "applet"?
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Using Hamster in Gnome Shell 3.2
I am running Gnome Shell 3.2 on Ubuntu 11.10.
I have installed Hamster Applet package version 2.32.1-0ubuntu5. There is now a Time Tracker application. Clicking on it does start the application where I can enter data, etc. But there is no indicator…
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How can I make hamster switch activity when I switch workspaces?
Hamster seems to have an option that allows it to automatically switch activity whenever the workspace is switched.
However I can only configure Workspace 1, and even so it doesn't work (I'm using Unity on 12.04).
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Why can I only run Hamster Time Tracker as root?
I've installed Project Hamster from source with:
git clone git://git.gnome.org/hamster-applet
cd hamster-applet
./waf configure build --prefix=/usr
sudo ./waf install
Attempting to run it as myself gives the following output:
~$…
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How do I delete a tag in Hamster Time Tracking?
Is there a possibility to delete a tag in Hamster Time Tracking?
I went through all graphical menus but couldn't find any option.
The closest one is the following but it doesn't list my own tags:
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How to prompt for argument and than run the program with the argument
I am not sure if is my question clear enough so here is some explanation what I am trying to achieve.
I need to create custom shortcut to run hamster (time tracker) to track new activity. The command is:
$ hamster start
so I want to…
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gconftool2 settings aren't saved permanently
I tried to change some settings with the gconftool-2:
$ gconftool-2 --set "/apps/hamster-indicator/show_label" --type bool "true"
Checking if it was set returns true:
$ gconftool-2 --get "/apps/hamster-indicator/show_label"
true
Now if I logout…
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Hamster time tracker won't launch in 18.04
I upgraded from 16.04 a while ago and got hamster time tracker to work with 18.04, but today after reboot the app is not launching any more. I click the launcher and nothing happens. How can I debug this? I recall there is a terminal command to…
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