Writing my own typing monitor program for RSI sufferers...

2006-02-20 Thread samslists
Hi... I want to write a program that will let me know after thirty minutes of typing that I need to take a five minute typing break. But when I stop typing it's smart enough to pause the 30 minute timer automatically. This is under the X-Window System (Linux). The tricky part is obviously knowin

Re: Writing my own typing monitor program for RSI sufferers...

2006-02-20 Thread samslists
So, so close The problem with this implementation is that it doesn't monitor usb keyboards under linux at all as far as I can tellsince no keyboard entry will show up in /proc/interrupts with a usb keyboard. I absolutely need the keyboard monitoring as well. Otherwise, your project would

Re: Writing my own typing monitor program for RSI sufferers...

2006-02-21 Thread samslists
Well, this is the one part that I have no idea how to doas far as I can tell the information simply is not in /proc. I need a different method to discover when someone is typing. That's what I came to the list for, to get a clue as to how to do that. Certainly someone has an idea how to dete