Safe Eyes

Protect your eyes from eye strain using this continuous breaks reminder. A Free and Open Source Linux alternative for EyeLeo.

For more details: SafeEyes Protects You From Eye Strain When Working On The Computer

Installation

Ubuntu:

1: Add the PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:slgobinath/safeeyes

2: Download the package list: sudo apt update

3: Install Safe Eyes: sudo apt install safeeyes

4: Start Safe Eyes from start menu.

Arch:

Install SafeEyes via AUR. Credits to Yamakaky

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: Install the dependencies:

• Arch: hicolor-icon-theme, libappindicator-gtk3, xorg-xprop, python2-xlib, python2-gobject and python2-dbus

• Debian: gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1, python-xlib, python-gobject, python-gi and python-dbus

• Fedora 24: libappindicator-gtk3, python-xlib, python-gobject, xorg-x11-utils and python-dbus

2: Download and extract safeeyes.tar.gz into /: sudo tar -xzvf safeeyes.tar.gz -C /

The following files are deployed by SafeEyes

opt/
opt/safeeyes/
opt/safeeyes/BreakScreen.py
opt/safeeyes/config/
opt/safeeyes/config/safeeyes.json
opt/safeeyes/config/style/
opt/safeeyes/config/style/safeeyes_style.css
opt/safeeyes/glade/
opt/safeeyes/glade/break_screen.glade
opt/safeeyes/glade/settings_dialog.glade
opt/safeeyes/Notification.py
opt/safeeyes/safeeyes
opt/safeeyes/SafeEyesCore.py
opt/safeeyes/SettingsDialog.py
opt/safeeyes/TrayIcon.py
usr/
usr/share/
usr/share/applications/
usr/share/applications/safeeyes.desktop
usr/share/icons/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/safeeyes.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/status/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/status/safeeyes_disabled.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/status/safeeyes_enabled.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/status/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/status/safeeyes_disabled.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/status/safeeyes_enabled.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/safeeyes.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/status/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/status/safeeyes_disabled.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/status/safeeyes_enabled.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/safeeyes.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/status/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/status/safeeyes_disabled.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/status/safeeyes_enabled.png
usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/
usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/safeeyes.png

If you have any issues in installing Safe Eyes, please report them here

4: Start Safe Eyes using this command: /opt/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.

Configuring Safe Eyes

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. If you want to add more exercises, you can add them in the safeeyes.json. A sample configuration is given below for your reference:

{
    "break_interval": 15, 
    "long_break_duration": 60, 
    "long_break_messages": [
        "Walk for a while", 
        "Lean back at your seat and relax",
        "Long break exercise 1",
        "Long break exercise 2"
    ], 
    "no_of_short_breaks_per_long_break": 5, 
    "pre_break_warning_time": 10, 
    "short_break_duration": 15, 
    "short_break_messages": [
        "Tightly close your eyes", 
        "Roll your eyes", 
        "Rotate your eyes", 
        "Blink your eyes", 
        "Have some water",
        "Short break exercise 1",
        "Short break exercise 2"
    ], 
    "skip_button_text": "Cancel", 
    "strict_break": false
}

Uninstalling Safe Eyes

Use the following commands to uninstall SafeEyes from your system.

sudo apt remove safeeyes
rm -r ~/.config/safeeyes
rm ~/.config/autostart/safeeyes.desktop

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?

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request

Are you using a different Linux system?

Please test Safe Eyes and create installers for your operating system

History

Version 1.0.9:

• Multi-screen support
• Handling system suspend (Stop and restart during system suspend)

Version 1.0.8:

• Bug fix for Ubuntu Mate

Version 1.0.7:

• Removed python-apscheduler dependency
• Installation directory is restructured
• Bug fixes:
  • Supporting Ubuntu 16.10
  • Symlink for autostart instead of copying the desktop file

Version 1.0.6:

• Latest stable release

Tested Environments

• Ubuntu 14.04
• Ubuntu 16.04
• Ubuntu 16.10
• Linux Mint 18
• Ubuntu Mate 16.04

License

GNU General Public License v3