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, python2-dbus, python2-babel, xprintidle and mpg123

• Debian: gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1, python-xlib, python-gobject, python-gi, python-dbus, gir1.2-notify-0.7, python-gtk2, python-babel, xprintidle and mpg123

• Fedora 24: libappindicator-gtk3, python-xlib, python-gobject, xorg-x11-utils, python-dbus, python-babel, xprintidle and mpg123

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

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. You can change the look and feel of the break screen in ~/.config/safeeyes/style/safeeyes_style.css.

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
• Smart pause and resume based on system idle time
• Optional audible alert at the end of break
• Multi-monitor support
• Elegant and customizable design
• Multi-language support

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

Can you translate English to your mother tongue (or whatever the language)?

Show your support by translating Safe Eyes to a new language or by improving the existing translations.

Translating Safe Eyes

From version 1.1.0, Safe Eyes supports translation. Translation files for each langauges must be placed in /opt/safeeyes/config/lang directory. The language file name must follow ISO 639-1 language code standard. For example, the language file of English must be en.json. Follow these steps to translate Safe Eyes to your language.

1. Copy /opt/safeeyes/config/lang/en.json to /opt/safeeyes/config/lang/<iso-639-1-language-code>.json

2. Provide language_name in the language itself and language_name_en in English.

3. Translate other property values to the selected language.

4. Translate the comment in safeeyes.desktop file.

Note 1: The {} used in property values will be replaced by runtime variables related to those commands. For example the {} in Next break at {} will be replaced by time at the runtime.

Note 2: Use Unicode when translating Safe Eyes.

Note 3: To change the language of Safe Eyes, change the language property in ~/.config/safeeyes/safeeyes.json to the ISO 639-1 code of your language and restart the Safe Eyes.

For more details, have a look at existing language files: lang

Currently available translations

• Čeština
• Deutsch
• English
• Español
• Français
• Magyar
• Português
• Русский
• Slovenský
• தமிழ்

History

Version 1.1.3:

• Bug fix for no audible alert

Version 1.1.3:

• Optional audible alert after breaks
• Pause Safe Eyes if the system is idle for a given time. (Resume when user is active)
• Bug fix for no break after fullscreen apps found
• Dependency fix for Kubuntu

Version 1.1.2:

• Bug fix for no break

Version 1.1.1:

• About dialog
• UI control to select the language
• Fixed bug in disable option after suspend

Version 1.1.0:

• Multi-language support
• Fixed bug in multi-screen support
• Fixed bug in break screen transparency
• Next break information in tray menu

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
• Kubuntu 16.10

License

GNU General Public License v3