Tip from a reader: Workrave helps prevent carpal tunnel syndrome
Tips / / December 19, 2019
Our reader Peter Shevtsov sent a story about a program that helps prevent carpal tunnel syndrome - quite common among computer geeks disease. Peter also leads own blog, Which advise you to pay attention.
For a long time and I enjoy reading LifeHacker. Ru, and now also I decided to make a small contribution and share one interesting finding.
Nakhodka called Workrave. This is a program that helps to avoid diseases caused by prolonged repetitive strain (Repetitive strain injury), Such as carpal tunnel syndrome. Application from time to time to remind to take breaks at work on a computer and is able to block the input means and the screen.
Workrave free software, licensed under GNU / GPL and runs on Linux and Windows.
Users of Fedora can install Workrave team:
yum install workrave
Features:
- Micro-breaks: short breaks for 30 seconds every few minutes.
- Five-minute breaks for physical exercise (usually every hour).
- The maximum limit of the computer work.
- Exercise: tests with pictures.
- Statistics: calendar statistics use a mouse and keyboard, as well as with the number of breaks taken.
- Applet for GNOME
- Networking opportunities: simultaneous work on multiple computers, such as a laptop and a desktop computer.
- The program is translated into several languages (including Russian).
Good day, good luck!
Workrave