Re: Possible to automatically resume "normal" mode on specific days at specific times?

[email protected] writes:

> I want to have workrave automatically switch to "normal" mode on
> weekdays at 9 AM.  Is there a way to schedule this or a way to
> communicate directly with the Workrave instance via port or through
> a CLI?

On Linux you can communicate most of these things via Gconf.  For
example, to change the time between micro-breaks to 5 minutes, you can
do this:

  gconftool-2 --set --type=int /apps/workrave/timers/micro_pause/limit 300

In principle, changing to normal mode should be this:

  gconftool-2 --set --type=int /apps/workrave/gui/operation-mode 0

In fact, changes to this particular Gconf setting (i.e.,
/apps/workrave/gui/operation-mode) are not noticed by Workrave 1.8.5,
which I am still running (although Workrave does update the setting
when you change the mode via the mouse menu interface, so you can use
gconftool-2 to view the setting).  I think this bug has been fixed.

There is also a DBUS interface which works on Linux (maybe also
Windows?).  I've never used the DBUS interface to Workrave except for
testing, but in principle this is supposed to work to change to normal
mode:

  dbus-send --print-reply --type=method_call --dest=org.workrave.Workrave /org/workrave/Workrave org.workrave.WorkraveInterface.SetOperationMode string:'normal'

I have no idea if there is any equivalent via the Windows registry.

And of course you can use standard techniques to run scripts at
specific times to invoke these commands.  So what you want should be
doable.  Personally, I have a cron job that runs every 2 minutes and
checks various Workrave issues.  For example, sometimes for work
(e.g., while demonstrating something) I need to temporarily put
Workrave in suspended mode, but then I can easily forget to return it
to normal mode later, so my script checks if I have left Workrave in
suspended mode for too long.

I hope this helps.

-- 
With my best regards,

Joe Wells

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