xfce4-timer: it was there all along

i should've used xfce4-timer instead

pomodoro shmomadoro. who needs it anyway? well i thought i did.

turns out there was something hidden away in linux mint in plain sight.

all i had to do was click in the top right corner

panel: add new items: xfce4-timer

what I like about it is it lets you trigger a command after the timed interval

tomatoshell was cool but I like this one because I dont need to just have it be for half hour increments. also its kind of a waste to have a terminal window taken up by a graphical thing. this is less obtrusive exactly what i was looking for all along. Im still glad I didn't download that gigabyte sized pomodoro. (although its tempting im still kind of curious to see what 2 gigabytes of pomodoro could be. I imagine the tomato being 2 gigabytes juicier even though the juicyness has nothing to do with the file size. but im curious still...)