After hard work from Bram Schoenmakers and me, I’ve prepared a release candidate for RSIBreak. The main changes are:

• Instead of a big break after x tiny breaks, the big break is now scheduled at x minutes.
• Improved idle detection, if you dont touch your mouse/keyboard for one second, the timer wil also hold for a second.
• dcop interface added for stopping/resuming RSIBreak
• improved multihead setup: grab mouse and keyboard when slideshow is active, so you can not continue on another screen.
• new tooltip code, which provides better and live information about the next big and tiny break

So, what is RSIBreak, you might want to know. Well it is a small utility which tries to prevent you from getting RSI. RSI stands for Repetitive Strain Injury and is a disease which is caused by repetitive movements of some muscles, for example working behind the computer. You can read a lot more at wikipedia

This utility tries to interrupt you in your work behind the computer, the trick is to get you away from the computer in a non-intrusive way, if it is an irritating utility people will be tempted to shut down the application.

You can try this release candidate by downloading the kubuntu dapper .deb or the source