Re: Prevent microbreak notifications if around a rest break time

On 06/05/13 04:46, Rob Caelers wrote:
>> I currently have workrave set up to notify about microbreaks every 20
>> minutes, and rest breaks every hour. Hence, I get the following
>> notifications.
>>
>> 0:00    Start timers
>> 0:20    Notification for microbreak
>> 0:40    Notification for microbreak
>> 1:00    Notification for rest break, immediately followed by microbreak.
> Strange. This shouldn't happen. Workrave should not give a microbreak warning 
> if a restbreak is due. This might be a bug in the reading mode. I will check. 
> What is the duration of your breaks?
>

They are 20 minutes for the microbreaks and 1 hour for the rest breaks.
>> Alternatively, is it possible to manually set the idle time for when
>> "reading mode" is off? It's much much too short for me, at ~9 and 16
>> seconds for microbreaks and rest breaks respectively. I'd like them at
>> about 2 or 3 minutes.
> The idle setting is stored in the registry (on Windows):
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Workrave\monitor\idle
>
> default 5000, number of milliseconds you have to be idle before
> workrave stop the timers.
>
> If the key does not exist, you have to create it. (create key 'monitor' ,
> create string value 'idle')
>
> Change at your own risk.
>
Sorry, I should have mentioned. I'm using the Linux/Ubuntu build.

Thanks for the response. Cheers.


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