ad1810-tachod uses ~/.ad1810-tachod.rc when present. Do not annoy more often than every $sleep period. Choose e.g. sleep=10m. # time to do stuff to leave the system grace=1s # Text to display when annoying the user message="Stop!" E.g. $ cat <~/.ad1810-tachod.rc sleep=2m morning=5 evening=23 message="Please take a rest" EOT for fvwm: extra annoyance: Style "xmessage" NoTitle, FPGrabFocus, StaysOnTop, Sticky see also: OverrideGrabFocus FPReleaseFocus !FPLeaveToUnfocus see also: xwrits - reminds you to take a break from typing rsibreak - KDE utility which can help to prevent the RSI workrave - Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) prevention tool slaapt (in cvs/gelfand/gelfand/vanbaal/bin)