I've just upgraded to beta 2 of Oneiric/11.10 and the typing break has gone.
I've gone into the system settings and looked in "Keyboard Layout" and "Keyboard" and can't find anything. Has it just been dropped?
Is there some hidden way to re-enable it?
Gnome 3 developers have dropped this from gnome-control-center with a recommendation that it be repackaged and available as a separate application.
A launchpad wishlist item was requested.
An alternative in for typing break is workrave. It is now available as a backport:
sudo apt-get install workrave
You need to white-list this application to appear in the Unity indicator-applet. Read this question if you want a more detailed explanation about what to do.
An enterprising developer has resurrected DrWright for Precise. The package is available from a PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:drwright/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install drwright
Note, that for 12.10,13.10,14.04 ppa is not up to date, so you have to use precise repositories:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/drwright/stable/ubuntu precise main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/drwright/stable/ubuntu precise main
Find the applet in the Control-Center to launch:
image and source for the information
In a similar manner as for 11.10, workrave is available from the Precise Universe repository if you do not wish to use a PPA.
