A group of commands that add the prayer times to the cron scheduler (daily), and it should alarm you at the prayer times.

It's a CLI program it does not use the GUI, I think it should be light and won't use much resources from the computer, and the best part is that it will run at the background.

You should also install xidel, parallel and anacron.

And you should edit the file /etc/anacrontab and add something like this line

1       3       salah.update    /home/ahmed/.salah/update

so that the scheduler will be updated daily.

after that you make a directory for the salah files and cd to it.

mkdir ~/.salah
cd ~/.salah

Add the commands that will run at each prayer to the files something like the following note also that you have to make them executable I have vlc installed and I have a file named S.m4a in ~/.salah directory

echo -e '#!/bin/bash\ncvlc ~/.salah/S.m4a' | tee Fajr Dhuhr Asr Maghrib > Ishaa
chmod +x Fajr Dhuhr Asr Maghrib Ishaa

Now you have to make the update file

Make the file ~/.salah/update which will have something like this:

#!/bin/bash

if ! cmp -s p d/$(date +%-j)
then
    cat <(grep -xvf p <(crontab -l)) <(cat d/$(date +%-j) | tee p) > my-crontab
fi

and make it executable:

chmod +x update

• Thanks to the authors of xidel, parallel and anacrontab. this program was made fairly easily with these commands.

• written by Ahmed Elsawy