Save your eyes by following the 20/20/20 rule! eyecare-daemon will send you a notification every 20 minutes, urging you to protect your eyes by looking 20 feet away for 20 seconds. Once your eyes have recovered from their toil, the daemon will let you know that you can get back to work. Such an essential for health script should be included by default in all distros.
Simplicity itself.
Download both eyecare.py and enums.py and place them in the same folder. Set the following code to run at startup (eg. putting it in xinit.rc or your distro settings):
python ~/path/to/file/eyecare.py
| Setting | Detail |
|---|---|
work_time |
Default 1200, in seconds |
relax_time |
Default 20, in seconds |
notification_expire - Linux only |
Default 5000, in ms |
command_method |
modern is preferred, but try legacy if you encounter an OSError-- this error happens when your shell python path variable is not set, so please do set it. legacy is also the default for osx as most people (I presume) do not have the path variable set, and those who do will comment out this default anyway :) |
- python
libnotifyfor linux notification
Confirmed to work on:
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (meaning derivative distros also should work)
- Arch Linux with
libnotify-bin, and something to handle notifications installed (dunstis used in the screenshot)
- @ragerin for a very helpful fork which was merged a long while ago, which is the foundation of today's daemon
- /u/guiltydoggy for testing the osx script repeatedly, and putting up with my relentless revisions