Auto continue after break

[flanaras]

Hello,

I would like to ask if there is meant to be an auto continue function after breaks as it is while running on gnome.
After the break time has passed the pomodoro doesn't start again by itself. It is so or do I have a problem on my system?

i3 version 4.14.1 (2017-09-24) © 2009 Michael Stapelberg and contributors
Pomodoro 0.13.4

Philip

[kantord]

Hello,

that's indeed how it's designed to behave. I usually leave my desk during the break, and don't return in 5 minutes sharp. Thence designing it to auto-continue didn't make much sense to me (I don't want to return to a Pomodoro that has been running for a minute or two already). However if this feature would be useful to you, I'll be glad to accept a pull request ;-)

Do you have a suggestion for a possible implementation?

[flanaras]

Thanks for your response,

Yes I definitely agree with you. I was thinking something like the way it runs on gnome, that i has an overlay and listens for any keyboard or mouse events and after that it starts the next pomodoro.
I don't know why it doesn't work like that by default like that on i3.

[kantord]

I don't know why it doesn't work like that by default like that on i3.

Do you mean gnome-pomodoro resumes automatically that way under gnome? I've only tried it with i3

[flanaras]

Yes, indeed that is the default behavior.

[kantord]

wow, I didn't know. I took a glimpse at gnome-pomodoro's source and I found this: https://github.com/codito/gnome-pomodoro/blob/797be15a5c674a663c7b256f28398a709946c69b/plugins/gnome/gnome-plugin.vala

"pause-when-idle" seems to be handled in gnome-plugin, and in gnome-plugin.vala you see this line:

this.can_enable = GLib.Environment.get_variable (CURRENT_DESKTOP_VARIABLE) == "GNOME";

So it seems gnome-pomodoro is designed to disable this feature altogether if the environment is not gnome.

[kantord]

@flanaras do you have a request or suggestion as per how this issue should be resolved?

[flanaras]

@kantord There could be an event listener, listening for keyboard or mouse events. When a pomodoro break is done, start the next one on the next input recorded.

[flanaras]

Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of the pomodoro technique?

[jakob1379]

Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of the pomodoro technique?

Sorry - I misunderstood what you first meant. But see my proposed solution in the pull request, which does exactly what you proposed ^_^

[uncle-betty]

Oh, cool, you guys solved this problem already...

I also looked into this a while back and came up with a slightly different solution for myself: a Python daemon that emulates the functionality of the org.gnome.Mutter.IdleMonitor interface provided by the Mutter window manager, which gnome-pomodoro uses (at least on Ubuntu 18.04).

FWIW - https://gist.github.com/uncle-betty/dc0a1a0ecc51b2b1661e6e1ebc5bf7ae

My approach seems a little over-engineered, now that I see your solution. :) Also, I didn't know about X11IdleMonitor and thus poll by invoking /usr/bin/xprintidle.

[jakob1379]

Well I have to make a little revision and make a new pr as I did some mistakes and kantor came with some better namings 🤣

[jakob1379]

Have anyone tried compiling i3-gnome with the source modded to just a static true and see if it works?