Break Controls page
The Controls page of the Break page in the Settings window contains options for the floating break control panel. It was called Appearance before version 3.2; theme selection and background options are now on the Themes page.
Fade in over and Fade out over: Choose how long the break takes to appear and disappear.
Control panel: Choose Always show (the default), Show initially, then fade out, or Hide initially, show on mouse movement. With either automatic hiding option, moving the mouse quickly fades the panels in. After 5 seconds of inactivity, they fade out over one second. Keeping the pointer over a panel leaves the panels visible on all displays. Automatically hiding the panel is a reward for recent supporters.
Break controls: The first three checkboxes enable you to show or hide the two postpone buttons and the skip button in the break control panel, and choose how many minutes to offer for the postpone buttons. Another checkbox enables a button to end the break early, some interval after the break starts; clicking this button will treat the break as having been done.
Show button to end break when done: If this is enabled, the break remains displayed after its scheduled duration. The control panel shows an End Break button and counts upward to show how much extra break time you have taken. Click the button when you are ready to finish. This is a supporter reward.
Mindfulness: This section includes an option to disable the Postpone and Skip buttons for a few seconds. You can choose how long. This feature helps break a habitual clicking of the buttons; to encourage you to consider if you really need to skip a break. It also has a checkbox to enable displaying the number of times a break has been postponed, skipped, and/or done each day, so you know how "good" you're being today; this is displayed below the buttons during a break, and also via a tooltip on the break label in the sidebar. These are both available as supporter rewards.
Control limits: This includes two checkboxes to enable limiting the number of times the break can be postponed and/or skipped each break, hour, or day. Useful if you find those buttons too hard to resist, but still want them there sometimes. This is also a supporter reward. Don't you just want to become a supporter?!