Eyecare

Reminds you to look away to avoid computer eye strain. It is recommended to look away from your screen for 20 seconds every 20 minutes.

$ gem install eyecare

$ eyecare start
$ eyecare stop

The app will run as a daemon and pid file will be saved into ~/.eyecare/eyecare.pid To see how much time left till next notification:

$ ps aux | grep Eyecare

Create a config file ~/.eyecare/config.yml

Config options are:

alert:
  message: 'Your message here'
  timeout: '20 seconds'
  interval: '20 minutes'
  icon: '/path/to/icon.png'
  beep:
    start: /path/to/audio.wav
    end: /path/to/audio.wav
    player: 'aplay :file'