Workaholic can be used to remind you to take a break. It will show you a transparent window with a progress bar. You can walk away from the computer for a while.
Installation
To install Workaholic on Ubuntu, you can execute the following steps:
- Open your /etc/apt/sources.list file with gedit text editor:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list - Add this line:
deb http://mundogeek.net/repo ubuntu all - Update the list of packages:
sudo apt-get update - Workaholic requires python-imaging package, you can install it with this command:
sudo apt-get install python-imaging - Install Workaholic:
sudo apt-get install workaholic
Usage
You can run Workaholic by clicking Applications → Accessories → Workaholic.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Ricardo // Feb 22, 2008 at 10:36 am
I got this error: ricardo@san:~$ workaholic Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/lib/workaholic/workaholic.py”, line 28, in from progressbar import ProgressBar File “/usr/lib/workaholic/progressbar.py”, line 1, in import gtk, Image, time, gobject, cairo ImportError: No module named Image
2 Ricardo // Feb 22, 2008 at 10:40 am
Please add in your how-to: sudo aptitude install python-imaging
3 Anon // Feb 22, 2008 at 1:19 pm
This functionality is already built in to Gnome if you’re using that. See the Preferences->Keyboard menu option.
4 Toor // Feb 22, 2008 at 6:07 pm
@Ricardo: Thanks! @Anon: Great tip.
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