Re: [Workrave-user] Workrave-user Digest, Vol 55, Issue 2

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>   1. Cannot set workrave with gconftool (Pete Crite)
>   2. Re: Cannot set workrave with gconftool (Rob Caelers)
>   3. Re: Ubuntu 13.04 no tray icon (Rob Caelers)
>   4. Kendra Chilver/GB/ACRYLICS is out of the office.
>      (ken...@lu...)
>   5. Re: Cannot set workrave with gconftool (Pete Crite)
>   6. Prevent microbreak notifications if around a rest    break time
>      (Pete Crite)
>   7. configure workrave 1.10 for ubuntu 12.04 (kis...@gm...)
>   8. custom exercices (Marcus Moeller)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:08:12 +1000
> From: Pete Crite <hyp...@la...>
> Subject: [Workrave-user] Cannot set workrave with gconftool
> To: wor...@li...
> Message-ID: <516...@la...>
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> Hi,
> 
> I'm using Workrave 1.9.909 in Kubuntu, and have been trying to schedule
> Workrave to only operate from 9 am to 5 pm. There are a few posts in the
> forum about how to do this in Linux, but none seem to work for me.
> 
> The first suggestion is to use gconftool. e.g.
>    $ gconftool-2 --set --type=int /apps/workrave/gui/operation-mode 1
> 
> However, this doesn't seem to work as suggested. For a start,
>    $ gconftool-2 --all-dirs /apps | grep work
> 
> produces nothing, so it seems that /apps/workrave does not even exist.
> Secondly, attempting to set this key produces no visible change in the
> Workrave GUI, and manually changing the state in the GUI to
> Normal/Quiet/Suspended does not affect the gconftool key's state.
> 
> 
> A second suggestion was to use dbus with
>    $   dbus-send --print-reply --type=method_call
> --dest=org.workrave.Workrave /org/workrave/Workrave
> org.workrave.WorkraveInterface.SetOperationMode string:'normal'
> 
> but this results in:
>    Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface
> `org.workrave.WorkraveInterface' on object at path /org/workrave/Workrave
> 
> 
> Could anyone please suggest how I could get this to work?
> 
> Cheers,
> Pete.
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:16:00 +0200
> From: Rob Caelers <ro...@kr...>
> Subject: Re: [Workrave-user] Cannot set workrave with gconftool
> To: End-user mailing list <wor...@li...>
> Message-ID: <516...@kr...>
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> Hi,
> 
>> I'm using Workrave 1.9.909 in Kubuntu, and have been trying to schedule
>> Workrave to only operate from 9 am to 5 pm. There are a few posts in the
>> forum about how to do this in Linux, but none seem to work for me.
> 
> Workrave in Kubuntu is probably compiled with gsettings instead of gconf. Try:
> 
> gsettings set org.workrave.general operation-mode 1
> 
> and,
> 
> gsettings list-recursively org.workrave
> 
>> A second suggestion was to use dbus with
>>     $   dbus-send --print-reply --type=method_call
>> --dest=org.workrave.Workrave /org/workrave/Workrave
>> org.workrave.WorkraveInterface.SetOperationMode string:'normal'
>> 
>> but this results in:
>>     Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface
>> `org.workrave.WorkraveInterface' on object at path /org/workrave/Workrave
> 
> Interfaces names have changed some while ago... Try:
> 
> dbus-send --print-reply --type=method_call --dest=org.workrave.Workrave 
> /org/workrave/Workrave/Core org.workrave.CoreInterface.SetOperationMode 
> string:'normal'
> 
> Groetjes,
>   Rob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:22:47 +0200
> From: Rob Caelers <ro...@kr...>
> Subject: Re: [Workrave-user] Ubuntu 13.04 no tray icon
> To: End-user mailing list <wor...@li...>
> Message-ID: <516...@kr...>
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> 
> Hi,
> 
>> Hi, just installed workrave 1.10-0ubuntu2 and there is no tray icon at all!
> 
> I think Unity only shows whitelisted icons... You can whitelist all icons 
> using the following command:
> 
> gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"
> 
> (according to 
> http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/how-to-re-enable-notification-area.html. This 
> information from 2011 might be outdated. I don't used Unity myself, so I 
> didn't test...)
> 
> Workrave has a special unity indicator plugin as a replacement. Not sure if it 
> is bundled with Ubuntu. If not you can install it from my ppa at:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~rob-caelers/+archive/workrave
> 
> something like :
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rob-caelers/workrave
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install workrave-unity
> 
> Groetjes,
>   Rob
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:03:01 +0100
> From: ken...@lu...
> Subject: [Workrave-user] Kendra Chilver/GB/ACRYLICS is out of the
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:02:23 +1000
> From: Pete Crite <hyp...@la...>
> Subject: Re: [Workrave-user] Cannot set workrave with gconftool
> To: End-user mailing list <wor...@li...>
> Cc: Rob Caelers <ro...@kr...>
> Message-ID: <516...@la...>
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> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> On 15/04/13 03:16, Rob Caelers wrote:
>> Workrave in Kubuntu is probably compiled with gsettings instead of gconf. Try:
>> 
>> gsettings set org.workrave.general operation-mode 1
>> 
>> and,
>> 
>> gsettings list-recursively org.workrave
> 
> `list` does seem to produce output, but `set` doesn't change anything in
> the GUI, although it does affect subsequent outputs of `list`.
>>> A second suggestion was to use dbus with
>>>     $   dbus-send --print-reply --type=method_call
>>> --dest=org.workrave.Workrave /org/workrave/Workrave
>>> org.workrave.WorkraveInterface.SetOperationMode string:'normal'
>>> 
>>> but this results in:
>>>     Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface
>>> `org.workrave.WorkraveInterface' on object at path /org/workrave/Workrave
>> Interfaces names have changed some while ago... Try:
>> 
>> dbus-send --print-reply --type=method_call --dest=org.workrave.Workrave 
>> /org/workrave/Workrave/Core org.workrave.CoreInterface.SetOperationMode 
>> string:'normal'
> This works well, with feedback from the GUI. FWIW the output of
> `gsettings list` doesn't appear to be affected.
> 
> It'd be great to integrate a scheduler into workrave directly. I've had
> to write scripts in three different places: cron, on wake from suspend,
> and on startup. I'll detail them here if they might be useful for
> anyone. They are written for a Linux computer (and based on pkill rather
> than the above options).
> 
> In crontab:
> ====================
> 0    9    *    *    2-6    pgrep workrave || export DISPLAY=:0.0 && workrave
> 0    17    *    *    2-6    pkill workrave
> ====================
> 
> At wake from suspend, run the following script. (i.e. place it in
> /etc/pm/sleep.d/ )
> ====================
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
> # launch workrave if between 9 to 5 on Tuesday to Saturday, else kill it
> 
> computer_resume()
> {
>    # sleep 10
>    if [[ `date +%w` -ge 2 && `date +%H` -ge 9 && `date +%H` -le 17 ]]; then
>        pgrep workrave || export DISPLAY=:0.0 && sudo -u <your_username>
> workrave   
>    else
>        pgrep workrave && pkill workrave
>    fi
> }
> 
> case $1 in
>    hibernate|suspend)
>        true # Do nothing
>        ;;
>    resume|thaw)
>        computer_resume & # background so it doesn't stall subsequent
> processes
>        ;;
> esac
> ====================
> 
> I've not written the startup script yet, but I'll be similar to the last
> one.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:12:52 +1000
> From: Pete Crite <hyp...@la...>
> Subject: [Workrave-user] Prevent microbreak notifications if around a
>    rest    break time
> To: End-user mailing list <wor...@li...>
> Message-ID: <516...@la...>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Is it possible to suppress the third notification for the microbreak,
> since I've just had a rest break? FWIW, I've got "reading mode" turned on.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:28:57 +0200
> From: "kis...@gm..." <kis...@gm...>
> Subject: [Workrave-user] configure workrave 1.10 for ubuntu 12.04
> To: wor...@li...
> Message-ID: <516...@gm...>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> 
> Hello,
> i got  configure error i can't resolve.
> please help.
> 
> checking for the Cheetah Python package... yes
> 
> checking for GNOME3... no
> 
> checking for GNOME2... no
> 
> checking for GLIB... yes
> 
> checking for GTK... no
> 
> checking for GTK... no
> 
> configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6.0                         gdk-2.0 >= 2.8                         sigc++-2.0                         glibmm-2.4 >= 2.10                         gtkmm-2.4 >= 2.10) were not met:
> 
> No package 'sigc++-2.0' found
> 
> No package 'glibmm-2.4' found
> 
> No package 'gtkmm-2.4' found
> 
> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> 
> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> 
> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GTK_CFLAGS
> 
> and GTK_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> 
> See the pkg-config man page for more details.
> 
> g1ra@g1ra-A-E:~/telem/workrave-1.10$ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> 
> Building dependency tree
> 
> Reading state information... Done
> 
> libgtk2.0-dev is already the newest version.
> 
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
> 
>   ttf-umefont linux-headers-3.2.0-29 linux-headers-3.2.0-29-generic language-pack-kde-zh-hans-base libkdegames5a wine-gecko1.4 wine-gecko1.4:i386 acroread-common language-pack-kde-en kde-l10n-engb language-pack-zh-hans-base
> 
>   lib32z1 lib32stdc++6 kde-l10n-zhcn language-pack-zh-hans language-pack-kde-zh-hans language-pack-kde-en-base ttf-droid
> 
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> 
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
> 
> g1ra@g1ra-A-E:~/telem/workrave-1.10$
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:23:34 +0200 (CEST)
> From: "Marcus Moeller" <ma...@ma...>
> Subject: [Workrave-user] custom exercices
> To: wor...@li...
> Message-ID: <201...@dd...>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> is there a way to include custom exercices without needing to rebuild the whole program?
> 
> Greetings
> Marcus
> 
> 
> 
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