Re: Changing inactive behavior

Joe Wells <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.misc.workrave.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Daniel Benamy <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Workrave is awesome and I really appreciate the work gone into creating 
> it. I do have one problem- I want to pause the timers on inactivity, but 
> they often reset while I'm reading a web page or something which doesn't 
> involve typing or moving the mouse. I still have my hands at the 
> keyboard so I still need to take a break and I'm missing them. I've seen 
> some discussion of this issue [1] and would like to voice a me too.
>
> Some possible solutions:
> * Change the time workrave considers to be inactivity. On my install 
> (1.9.1) it seems to wait about 7 seconds and then starts resetting the 
> timers. I'd like to try that value at around 1 minute.

There are some settings available in GConf that can affect this, but
it would be nice if there was a section in the preferences panel to
control them.  And of course it would be great if this section had
proper help text that explained how they worked.

> * Have the timers suspend when inactive like they do now, but not
> reset.

Your idea is that the timers would only reset after counting down all
the way and _then_ going through the reset time?  That is
interesting.  I think that could be useful.

-- 
Joe

> * Have a separate option in the prefs for resetting. This could be a 
> binary switch or a configurable time. This lets people set things up the 
> way they like at the cost of making the prefs more complicated.
>
> I'd like to know if any of these would be a problem for anyone. I might 
> whip up a patch.
>
> Best,
> Dan
>
>
> [1] 
> https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=851375.34416.qm@web110406.mail.gq1.yahoo.com&forum_name=workrave-user
>
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