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Safe Eyes
Protect your eyes from eye strain using this continuous breaks reminder. A Free and Open Source Linux alternative for EyeLeo.
Installation
Ubuntu:
1: Add the PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:slgobinath/safeeyes
2: Download the package list: sudo apt update
3: Install uget-chrome-wrapper: sudo apt install safeeyes
4: Start Safe Eyes from start menu.
Other Linux:
Manual installation is not tested in any systems. I will update this page as soon as I have tested in any other Linux distributions.
1: Download and extract safeeyes.tar.gz into /opt
2: Download and extract hicolor.tar.gz into ~/.icons
or /usr/share/icons
3: Install the dependencies: gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1
, python-xlib
, python-apscheduler
, python-gobject
4: Start Safe Eyes using this command: /opt/safeeyes/safeeyes/safeeyes
Once started, Safe Eyes will copy the desktop file to ~/.config/autostart
and the configurations to ~/.config/safeeyes
. Therefore, from next time onwards, it should start with the system.
Usage
Just install and forget; Safe Eyes will take care of your eyes. To customize the preferences, go to Settings from Safe Eyes tray icon.
For advanced configuration, go to ~/.config/safeeyes folder
. There you can change the Skip button text in safeeyes.json
and the look and feel of the break screen in style/safeeyes_style.css
.
Features
- Short breaks with eye exercises
- Long breaks to change physical position and to warm up
- Strict break for those who are addicted to computer
- Highly customizable
- Do not disturb when working with fullscreen applications( Eg: Watching movies)
- Disable the keyboard during break
- Notifications before every break
- Multi-workspace support
- Elegant and customizable design
Contributing
Are you a user?
Please test Safe Eyes on your system and report any issues here
Are you a developer?
- Fork it!
- Create your feature branch:
git checkout -b my-new-feature
- Commit your changes:
git commit -am 'Add some feature'
- Push to the branch:
git push origin my-new-feature
- Submit a pull request
Are you using a different Linux system?
Please test Safe Eyes and create installers for your operating system
History
Version 1.0.6:
- Latest stable release
License
GNU General Public License v3