Champagne

Animated countdown timer for welcoming all important life events. Also see the countdown package on MELPA.

preview.mp4

It will call functions at the timer start and timer end, allowing you to integrate with other “games” such as snow.el.

Install Champagne

(use-package champagne) ; vanilla

;; using elpaca's with explicit recipe
(use-package champagne
  :elpaca (champagne :host github :repo "positron-solutions/champagne"))

;; straight with explicit recipe
(use-package champagne
  :straight (champagne :type git :host github :repo "positron-solutions/champagne"))

;; or use melpa, manual load-path & require, you brave yak shaver

Use Champagne

M-x champagne will ask for a duration and goal-time. Goal time should be far enough in the future for the duration to run or else it will start immediately instead. Empty goal time will also start immediately. Some acceptable values for goal time:

• 5:05
• 17:12
• 2 hours 10 minutes
• 5:00pm
• Sun Jan 23 00:00:00 2023

From Elisp

Calling champagne from Elisp is mostly the same. Emacs list style times returned from current-time etc are acceptable.

;; For a basic countdown, starting right now:
(champagne 5)
;;
;; Count down to some point in the future:
(champagne nil "10:00pm")
;;
;; Count down and call a function at the beginning of the countdown
(champagne nil nil #'parrot-start-animation)
;;
;; Count down and call a function at the end of the countdown
(champagne nil nil nil #'snow)
;;
;; Count down with all behaviors
(champagne 60 "Sun Jan 23 00:00:00 2023" #'parrot-start-animation #'snow)

Limitations

Depending on your window manager, you may observe that alpha and alpha-background do not work or leave graphical artifacts until the child frame is cleaned up after the countdown. Set these to 100 via customize if you have an issue.

The child frame used by posframe could be replaced if anyone is interested in some easy code to fix up, but even non-child frames and those using override-redirect will have varying transparency support depending on the window manager.

Contributing

CONTRIBUTING contains instructions on using this repository’s functionality. A DCO and GPL3 license are included with this project.

Do consider buying me a glass of champagne if you find this timer amusing. Github Sponsors is configured.