Re: [Workrave-user] Changing inactive behavior

[Rob C. <ro...@kr...>]

Hi,

> Workrave is awesome and I really appreciate the work gone into creating

Thanks!

> 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.

The next version of Workrave will have a reading mode. In reading mode, the 
timers will not stop when you become idle. Timers only stop counting during 
breaks. The microbreak automatically restarts after the break; The restbreak 
timer restart on user activity (keyboard/mouse).

> 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.

The delay can be configured, but not using the preferences GUI. You
have to use regedit (on windows) or gconf-editor (on gnome)

regedit:
CURRENT_USER/Software/Workrave/monitor/idle

gconf-editor:
apps/workrave/monitor/idle

time is in milliseconds. Changing this settings is not recommended and not 
supported. Values > 30 seconds may cause side-effects...

Feel free to try a nightly build to try the reading mode and give feedback.

Groetjes,
   Rob