[Techtalk] Linux Ergonomics

[Telsa Gwynne]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:54:35AM -0500 or thereabouts, Subba Rao wrote:
> 
> I am searching for some software that will lockup my linux system(s) 
> for every X minutes.  For Windows, I found some software called 
> "Oostime" that does exactly that and forces the user to take a 
> break from the computer. Is there anything like that for Linux?

The one I have heard of is xwrits. That's not a typo, much though
it looks like it.

http://www.lcdf.org/~eddietwo/xwrits/ 

> Oostime is free and configurable.  It locks up every 5 minutes 
> for 30 seconds and for every 40 minutes it locks up for 10 
> minutes.  I would like similar functionality on my Linux 
> system(s) as well.

You can certainly do something similar with xwrits, but I don't
know about exactly the same. 

Telsa
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