After two months of beta testing, I’ve released version 0.11. There now is a suspend button in the popup you see just before it is time to break. This way you can finish that all important mail before you go to kitchen to fetch some koffee. Also an endless loop has been found and fixed, this took quite a bit of time to find and resolve. I hopy you enjoy this new version. A lot has changed since 0.10, and I hope it now is a mature and solid piece of software which can benefit a lot of people.
Download is available on the RSBreak site.
What is RSIBreak
Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) is an illness which can occur as a result of continuous work with a mouse and keyboard. The risk of suffering injury increases the longer users work without breaks. RSIBreak simply offers reminders to take a break now and then.
After the start it will show up in your system tray and will monitor your activity. Whenever it detects that you have been active for a certain amount of time (configurable) it will prompt you for a break. It has some settings so if you walk away from your keyboard, it can reset the timers, so you will not be bothered with a break right after you return from that coffee break.
You can setup RSIBreak to popup a tiny notification popup to remind you to take a break, but you can also configure it to black out your screen so you can not continue working. All to your liking. As full screen work prevention methods, there is the possibility to gray out the screen, show a slideshow with your images or show the plasma dashboard (read only).
RSIBreak also provides statistics about the amount of time you actively worked, the amount of time you were idle, how many breaks you skipped, etc, etc.
RSIBreak is an open source application with a GPL license and is free software – both in money and in code. At this moment this application is only for Linux/X11 systems.
