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You can activate it on System > Preferences > Keyboard, the last tab of the window.
But since it doesn't warn me beforehand except through the icon, I sometimes end up rot13:
qvfnoyvat vg naq er-ranoyvat vg (juvpu erfrgf gur gvzre)if I'm doing something “important” when the icon is red, and even tofjvgpu gb n iveghny pbafbyr jvgu Pgey-Nyg-S1, naq xvyy gur tabzr-glcvat-zbavgbe cebprff sebz gur pbzznaq yvarto end a break. If a break enforcer wouldn'terfrg gur gvzre jura vg'f qvfnoyrqand wouldoybpx gur Pgey-Nyg-S_v_ pbzovangvbaf nf jryy, I would find it much more useful. (I sometimes even make a deal with myself whereby I decide to donate €50 to charity unless I never cheat on the typing break enforcer during the next week.)Sounds like you need something to electrically disable the keyboard for ten minutes an hour ...
Or just set up something elsewhere that needs to be dealt with. An alarm clock in the next room, or whatnot?