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. e.g. Sec 72 of Statutory Instrument 299 of 2007 of Irish law (cf. http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2007/en/si/0299.html#article72 ) ( This is mostly a copy of previously reported bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/883228 incorrectly reported against unity ) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.245 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 Date: Mon Oct 31 18:52:38 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: ubuntu-meta UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-25 (5 days ago) ** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 oneiric running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/884377 Title: Ubuntu Desktop lacks a typing break/anti-RSI software To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/884377/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
