Comments on: Linux / Windows Application For Prevention Of RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury)

By: M.S. Babaei

M.S. Babaei — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:09:36 +0000

ur welcome :)

By: NuLL3rr0r

NuLL3rr0r — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:08:12 +0000

Workrave-1.9.2 fixed this problem. It’s not needed anymore to disable xorg record module. In fact with the above setting you are getting this 3rr0r with newest version of Workrave (Workrave won’t run):

babaei@mbp13x17 ~ $ workrave
Xlib: extension “RECORD” missing on display “:0.0″.
workrave: xcb_io.c:140: dequeue_pending_request: Assertion `req == dpy->xcb->pending_requests’ failed.
Aborted

I backed to my original configuration, and now its just works fine.

Section “Module”
Load “dbe”
Load “dri”
Load “extmod”
Load “glx”
Load “record”
Load “dri2″
EndSection

By: Robert Lamb

Robert Lamb — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:42:42 +0000

For the ones using Windows, I think the better options are still Speech Recognition. I tried to use another program (RSI Shield), but in the end it just annoyed me, and I had to disable it when I was in the middle of solving some problem.
With speech recognition, there is no such problem, since I am not even using the hands.
For the ones that can´t pay for Dragon NatSpeak, I would suggest Windows Vista or Windows 7 with built-in speech recognization.
The only drawback of Windows is its way of moving the mouse by voice, which requires a lot of commands. For this issue, I found a tiny program called Voice Finger ( http://voicefinger.cozendey.com ), that does a wonderful job at moving the mouse around and clicking with the voice.
Now my RSI is much better, and I hope soon I will be completely healed.

By: deepinlife

deepinlife — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:31:59 +0000

@M.S. Babaei
thx , i have faced the same problem on suse 10.2 with xorg version 1.6.5
i couldn’t find xorg at first , but after regenerating it and commenting as u mentioned , it worked

By: Sathiya

Sathiya — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:33:00 +0000

Addicts like me definitely require this..

Long before i came to know about this and used it in my office, but however am not able to follow it and disabled it.

Now i installed in my laptop, Hopefully i should be able to enable it for some months atleast.

By: Ganga

Ganga — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:28:47 +0000

Hello Vivek,

Wow…that s is a nice piece of software saving programmers! :p

Do u know any piece of code that tracks amount of time spent by user on a web-browser ( or a particular application) and and does warning by a popup window similar to workrave?

Keep on good work! Happy new year!
G

By: Gamliel Fishkin / Гамлиэль Фишкин / גַּמְלִיאֵל פִשְׁקִין

Gamliel Fishkin / Гамлиэль Фишкин / גַּמְלִיאֵל פִשְׁקִין — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:58:22 +0000

It is useful, but Linux (at least Gnome at Ubuntu) already has such a feature: in the keyboard settings.

By: Arun Bagul

Arun Bagul — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:53:14 +0000

Hi! Vivek,

Nice tool.. I am using it….

By: vonskippy

vonskippy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:13:27 +0000

If people are so lame that they need to be reminded of stuff like this, how long before they upgrade the app to “don’t forget – it’s time to pick your nose”, “go to the bathroom”, “fart”, “eat”, “sleep”, “breath”, etc. Talk about creating a solution for a problem that does NOT exist (at least for someone that can still rub a brain cell or two together).

By: nobody

nobody — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:50:20 +0000

i was looking 4 something like this a long time.

10x for sharing

By: M.S. Babaei

M.S. Babaei — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:44:15 +0000

It’s also good to mention that workrave has problems with xorg 1.6.0 and not working after installation (at least in my gentoo box).
the solution is to disable the record module in xorg.conf like this:

Section “Module”
# Temporary for workrave (xorg 1.6.0 and above caused this)
#Load “record”
Disable “record”
#
Load “dri2″
Load “extmod”
Load “dri”
Load “glx”
Load “dbe”
Load “wfb”
EndSection

By: M.S. Babaei

M.S. Babaei — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:41:05 +0000

Workrave is always the best!!
I have CTS and it’s about a year using Workrave my life became easier.

By: Patil

Patil — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:13:17 +0000

Good to know this .!!!

By: surendra kumar anne

surendra kumar anne — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:19:47 +0000

This is good