Coffee Break : Procrastination fighter

Coffee Break is a small program designed to help you to get back to work, after taking a quick break from it.

Getting back to work after watching a TV series episode (Farscape), playing guitar, etc, requires more than mental strength... It requires someone to tell you to go back and struggle some more !

That is what Coffee Break does. It just reminds you after some time that you need to go back to work.

How to use-it?

Really simple! First, you need to install it. For that, pop a terminal and type

$ cd /path/to/CoffeeBreak/directory
$ sudo chmod +x install.sh
$ sudo ./install.sh

Now you can create a shortcut on your taskbar (NB: bin is at /usr/local/bin/coffeebreak, icons are at /usr/local/share/coffeebreak/), or type in

$ coffeebreak X

where X is your break time, expressed in minutes.

NB : default X value is 10 minutes.

Requirements

Coffee Break has been only developped and tested on Ubuntu 10.10 / Mint 9.
It requires the following python libraries:

• gtk preinstalled
• os preinstalled
• sys preinstalled
• math preinstalled
• pynotify preinstalled
• gobject preinstalled
• time preinstalled

Uninstall

In a terminal, type

$ sudo chmod +x uninstall.sh
$ ./uninstall.sh

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