Re: [Workrave-user] Micropause timer reset

[William M. <wi...@kn...>]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:55:05PM +0100, Rob Caelers wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply. So the Pause Duration is used for both the amount
> > of time for the break as well as the amount of time before the timer is
> > reset due to inactivity. It would be nice to be able to configure the
> 
> Correct. In the statistics they are called 'prompted breaks' and
> 'naturual breaks'.

OK, that makes sense.


> > amount of time required before workrave goes into idle mode. Personally,
> > I find 5 seconds far too fast and would prefer my timers to go off every
> > 10 minutes or 1 hr whether I'm "actively" using the computer or not.
> 
> The 5 seconds can be configured, but not using the preferences GUI. You
> have to use regedit (on windows), gconf-editor (on gnome), or edit the
> config.xml in ~/.workrave:
> 
> gconf-editor:
> apps/workrave/monitor/idle

Wow! That's much nicer than having to recompile. I'm using workrave on
Debian Woody. I didn't see monitor within the workrave section. I have
distribution, gui, sound, timers.

The ~/.workrave/config.xml file did not exist. I added it as per your
example (minus the notation line) and changed the 5000 to 300000 (5 secs
to 5 minutes). I exited workrave and restarted but am still getting 5
second idles. Are these functions only supported in 1.4.1? BTW, what do
the activity and noise settings adjust?


> Note that this is not supported :-)

Well there goes the warranty, eh? ;->


> The idle threshold is a global setting. It cannot be set per break.

As I suspected.

Thanks!
William

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