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About RSIBreak

Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) is an illness which can occur as a result of continuous work with a mouse and keyboard. The risk of suffering injury increases the longer users work without breaks. RSIBreak simply offers reminders to take a break now and then.

After the start it will show up in your system tray and will monitor your activity. Whenever it detects that you have been active for a certain amount of time (configurable) it will prompt you for a break. It has some settings so if you walk away from your keyboard, it can reset the timers, so you will not be bothered with a break right after you return from that coffee break.

You can setup RSIBreak to popup a tiny notification popup to remind you to take a break, but you can also configure it to black out your screen so you can not continue working. All to your liking. As full screen work prevention methods, there is the possibility to gray out the screen, show a slideshow with your images or show the plasma dashboard (read only).

RSIBreak also provides statistics about the amount of time you actively worked, the amount of time you were idle, how many breaks you skipped, etc, etc.

RSIBreak is an open source application with a GPL license and is free software - both in money and in code. Its main developer can be reached via e-mail (toma@kde.org), whishes and bugs are usually implemented / fixed after you report them to http://bugs.kde.org - Or use the application to report them. At this moment this application is only for Linux/X11 systems.

Article in BenefIT magazine
Thursday, 27 January 2011 14:52

It appears RSIBreak hit the press recently. Amit Shah has reviewed WorkRave and RSIBreak, you can read about it http://log.amitshah.net/2011/01/stay-healthy-by-taking-breaks.html. Although WorkRave appears to have somewhat more features, the article is still very positive about RSIBreak. It's a nice read!
Last Updated on Thursday, 27 January 2011 14:55
 
RSIBreak 0.11
Friday, 14 January 2011 22:20

After two months of beta testing, I've released version 0.11. There now is a suspend button in the popup you see just before it is time to break. This way you can finish that all important mail before you go to kitchen to fetch some coffee. Also an endless loop has been found and fixed, this took quite a bit of time to find and resolve. I hopy you enjoy this new version. A lot has changed since 0.10, and I hope it now is a mature and solid piece of software which can benefit a lot of people.
Last Updated on Thursday, 27 January 2011 14:43
 
RSIBreak 0.11 Beta 1
Friday, 01 October 2010 21:11
We know we don't release often, but it's this time of the year again. We've just uploaded 0.11 beta 1 to the site. The changes to 0.10 are mostly bugfixes, we prefer stability and reliability over massive amounts of new features. Anyhow, check it out. A short list of changes:

- Fix detection of additional screens
- Make popup time configurable
- Require Qt 4.6.0 and KDE 4.4.0
- Fix timers when lock button is pressed
- Add the possibility to remove the lock button
- Remove buggy screenshot to show RSIBreak in the systray at startup and when launching a second time
- Add notification settings to the config
- Don't restart timers when leaving config and timers has not been changed
- Slideshoweffect: make the visibility of small images optional. ( Juan Luis Baptiste )
- Make popup visibly more attractive ( Juan Luis Baptiste)
- Make timers work for Qt=>4.4 ( Chani Armitage )
- Fix plasma category ( Balcaen John )
- Use KIdle library from kdelibs, instead of directly asking X.
Last Updated on Friday, 01 October 2010 21:30