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Stretchly is a cross-platform open source app that reminds you to take breaks when working on your computer.
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The latest official installers and portable versions for macOS, Windows and Linux can be found at Github Releases page. For supported versions of your OS check Electron's supported versions. Read on for details of specific OSes.
Following sections link some individual files for a simplicity.
Download the DMG file or Arm64 DMG file.
It is recommended to install Stretchly with Homebrew by running the folowing command.
See Application Signing for details.
brew update && brew install --cask --no-quarantine stretchly
When upgrading, run the following command.
Don't forget to Quit Stretchly, first.
brew update && brew upgrade --cask
If you're using Alfred or Raycast on macOS you can use this Alfred Workflow or Raycast Extension to interact with Stretchly.
Stretchly is not signed (due to its costs and me not owning supported Apple device) so you will need to use a workaround for the first run. The workaround
depends on if you're running an Intel or Apple Silicon chip.
Apple Chips: Try following the same instructions as with Intel chips and if that does not work, open a terminal and run this command:
sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Stretchly.app
If you install via Homebrew, you can use the --no-quarantine flag to automatically apply the correct
workaround.
brew install --cask --no-quarantine stretchly
Not sure which chip your computer has? Here's how to tell.
Download the installer.
You can also install Stretchly with Chocolatey by running the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
choco install stretchly
To update:
choco upgrade stretchly
Stretchly is also available in Microsoft's winget.
You can install it by running:
winget install -e --id Stretchly.Stretchly
Stretchly can be also found at official Microsoft Store.
You can install Stretchly for all users silently by running this as administrator:
installer.exe /S /allusers
For portable versions and for Linux installers, head to Github Releases page. The most widely used distributions should be covered.
Stretchly is also available in some of the Linux stores:
For Debian/Ubuntu and derivates you could also try this apt repository: deb [trusted=yes] https://apt.fury.io/hovancik/ /.
Please see http://electron.atom.io/docs/api/tray/ for Electron's Tray Linux specifics.
For Natural breaks, you might need some packages too (libxss-dev).
If Stretchly is not starting, you might need to run:
sudo sysctl kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1
sudo sysctl -w kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=0
Read more here. Depending on your distro, you probably want to do something similar to this, so the preferences are kept after reboot: Add kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1 and kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=0 to /etc/sysctl.d/00-local-userns.conf and reboot.
To run Stretchly from source you will need Node.js, ideally the one specified in package.json. Clone the repo, run npm install and then simply run npm start to start Stretchly.
You can create a custom installer by running npm run pack or npm run dist after npm install --no-save.