Install Sane Break

About Sane Break

Sane Break is a cross-platform break reminder designed to help you take meaningful breaks without disrupting your workflow.

What's new in 0.10.1

What's new Features - Add command-line control for Sane Break, including pause/resume, break-now, postpone, meeting mode, focus mode, and status queries (cbdf256, 93af4c2) Bug Fixes - Fix a divide-by-zero crash when flashing speed is set to 0 BPM (0f87e7c) - Fix the tray icon disappearing after triggering Break Now (6b224c8) Other Improvements - Use the system locale's time format in break windows, meeting time pickers, and timeline labels (ea40987) - Show clearer inline guidance when meeting or focus reasons are too short, and ignore whitespace-only input (bc4f759) - Mark the GNOME extension as compatible with GNOME 50 (9594d73) Installation instructions: macOS Download sane-break-macos-x86_64.dmg file if you are using Intel mac, or sane-break-macos-arm64.dmg if you are using ARM chip. Open and install it. macOS 13 or newer are supported. Windows x86 version of Windows 10 or newer is supported. Older versions may be supported too. - Portable version: Download the sane-break-windows.zip extract it. Put the .exe executable anywhere you like. - Installer verions: Download the sane-break-windows.exe and run it. Linux For Debian-based distributions, there is a notoriously large number of derivatives, and many of them ship old versions of Qt and do not include the latest layer-shell-qt. It is impractical to create .deb packages for all of them, so we only provide support for Debian Bookworm and Trixie. (Unfortunately, Ubuntu LTS ships with a very old version of Qt and lacks layer-shell-qt.) The difference between Bookworm build and Trixie build is the layer shell support. If you...

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