For those of us who need to take breaks from our computer (mine for medical reasons), the gnome-typing-monitor is indispensable.
However, it does NOT work in Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid). Which for me, was a show stopper. I have Deep Vein Thrombosis and so I can’t sit for extended periods of time.
Ubuntu 10.04 Bug #565757 (gnome-typing-monitor)
This solution, fixes the problem. You will need to obtain the gnome-typing monitor from version 9.10. You can find 32 and 64 bit versions here.
Note that you will need to change the permissions (chmod) and ownership (chown) once you have downloaded and moved the file.
it needs to look like:
ls -l gnome-typing-monitor
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34920 2010-07-07 23:53 gnome-typing-monitor
note that in the following example ‘#’ is the comment character.
You don’t code that or anything that follows:
1. Let’s go to the directory where the gnome-typing-monitor is stored:
cd /usr/bin
2. Let’s create a backup copy of the programme.
sudo cp gnome-typing-monitor gnome-typing-monitor_10.04
3. Copy the programme from our home directory (or where ever you downloaded it to, to /usr/bin
sudo cp ~/gnome-typing-monitor /usr/bin
4. Change the owner on the file back to root.
sudo chown root gnome-typing-monitor
5. Change the file permissions.
sudo chown 755 gnome-typing-monitor #change the permissions on the file (rwx for root, rx for group and world)
Now we have to fix gconf we do that by:
1. Start gconf-editor in the shell
gconf-editor
2. Go to desktop
3. gnome
4. typing break
Click on “enabled”
That’s what worked for me
Joe
Now I can finally upgrade from 9.10 (karmic) to 10.04 (lucid)
Thanks Joe!
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