Public bug reported:
I occasionally suffer from RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) in my wrists &
arms. I enabled the typing break in Gnome before which was a godsend,
and helped a lot.
I recently upgraded to 11.10 and found that there was no typing break
feature in Unity, but that also the typing break has been removed from
'gnome shell'. There is no built in option for a typing break. There
appear to be several 3rd party typing break programmes, but some are not
available for ubuntu. There's a gnome programme called drwright
(apparently), but it's not packaged for ubuntu, there's 'workrave', but
that's not packaged/installable for 11.10. Right now I'm trailing a KDE
application (rsibreak), but it has a bad UI, and does not properly lock
the screen aswell, so is a step down.
NB: It is also a requirement under EU law that workers be able to take
regular breaks if the use a visual display unit. This might make stock
Ubuntu unsuitable to be used in workplaces.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: unity 4.24.0-0ubuntu2b1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic-pae 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for
`/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
Date: Fri Oct 28 19:46:16 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-25 (2 days ago)
** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: a11y apport-bug i386 oneiric
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Unity & Gnome lacks a typing break feature
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