{"id":1007,"date":"2013-11-14T12:40:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T11:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2014-05-20T09:06:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T08:06:40","slug":"typing-breaks-in-gnome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2013\/11\/14\/typing-breaks-in-gnome\/","title":{"rendered":"Typing breaks in GNOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1008\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2013\/11\/14\/typing-breaks-in-gnome\/input-keyboard-100\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/input-keyboard-100.png\" data-orig-size=\"100,100\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"input-keyboard-100\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/input-keyboard-100.png\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1008\" alt=\"input-keyboard-100\" src=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/input-keyboard-100.png\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>For quite a while now I&#8217;ve used the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.gnome.org\/drwright\">drwright<\/a> application to configure typing breaks. Once every so often, the desktop would refuse keyboard input and tell me to go and walk around for a few minutes instead. This helps to prevent RSI and other problems.<\/p>\n<p>Since Fedora 19, though, drwright is <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.redhat.com\/show_bug.cgi?id=948755\">no longer usable<\/a>. No matter, I switched to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workrave.org\/\">Workrave<\/a> as that is a similar application although with more tweakable options than I needed.<\/p>\n<p>But now in Fedora 20 (currently in <a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/wiki\/F20_Beta_release_announcement\">Beta<\/a>) the problem of not being able to adjust configuration settings has affected Workrave as well! This time it&#8217;s a different bug, but <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.redhat.com\/show_bug.cgi?id=1009046\">not being able to right-click and get a context menu on the icon<\/a> makes it pretty hard to use.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t anyone else set typing breaks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For quite a while now I&#8217;ve used the drwright application to configure typing breaks. Once every so often, the desktop would refuse keyboard input and tell me to go and walk around for a few minutes instead. This helps to prevent RSI and other problems. Since Fedora 19, though, drwright is no longer usable. 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