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Break time and pomodoro time progress timer on Linux

You can add hooks to org-pomodoro to run external processes. This can be used to run external progress bars if you wish.

Add the following to your .emacs:

(add-hook 'org-pomodoro-finished-hook
  (lambda ()
    (interactive)
    (call-process "yadKill")
    (start-process-shell-command "yad Break timers command" nil "yadBreakTime")
    ))  
(add-hook 'org-pomodoro-started-hook
  (lambda ()
    (interactive)  
    ;Kill of old break timer window if it exist.
    (call-process "yadKill")
    (start-process-shell-command "yad Break timers command" nil "yadBottomProgressBar")
    ))   

Now create three bash scripts and place them into your path:

yadBottomProgressBar

xpixels=$(xrandr --current | grep "Screen" | cut -d ',' -f2 | cut -d ' ' -f3) #grab total x of combined monitors.
xposOfYad=$(expr $xpixels  / 2 - 154)  #place in the middle of total space.
ypixels=$(xrandr --current | grep "Screen" | cut -d ',' -f2 | cut -d ' ' -f5)
yPosOfYad=$(expr $ypixels + 10)
echo $xposOfYad " " $yPosOfYad
yad --on-top --sticky --info --text="$*" --timeout=1500 --timeout-indicator=top --text-align=center --no-buttons --center --undecorated --geometry=50x5+$xposOfYad+$yPosOfYad

yadBreakTime

 #!/bin/sh 
xpixels=$(xrandr --current | grep "Screen" | cut -d ',' -f2 | cut -d ' ' -f3) #grab total x of combined monitors.
xposOfYad=$(expr $xpixels  / 2 - 400)  #place in the middle of total space.
yad --on-top --sticky --info --text="$*" --timeout=300 --timeout-indicator=bottom --text-align=center --no-buttons --center --undecorated --geometry=800x50+$xposOfYad+-5

yadKill

pkill yad

Now it'll open progress bars for when a pomodoro starts. the yadKill is useful if you start a pomodoro before finishing a break. The break/progress bars can be closed by pressing escape on them.
For positioning, see the --geometry property and man pages. also inspect the xrandr output to customize to your needs.