Dear all,
Something I really like from elementary OS are its terminal notifications for commands that take longer than 15 seconds.
See this example:
Fairly easy to integrate by shipping the package undistract-me [1] by default. It is in the Ubuntu repositories.
Something to consider for the future releases?
Yours,
Robert
[1] https://github.com/jml/undistract-me
Terminal notifications like in elementary OS?
Forum rules
Do not post support questions here. Before you post read: Where to post ideas & feature requests
Do not post support questions here. Before you post read: Where to post ideas & feature requests
Terminal notifications like in elementary OS?
Last edited by Moem on Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:09 am, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Adding the [rimg] tags (for remote images) makes your image appear directly inside the post.
Reason: Adding the [rimg] tags (for remote images) makes your image appear directly inside the post.
Join us on the Linux Mint Telegram group.
- catweazel
- Level 19
- Posts: 9763
- Joined: Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:44 pm
- Location: Australian Antarctic Territory
Re: Terminal notifications like in elementary OS?
-1
Yet another on-screen annoyance.
Yet another on-screen annoyance.
"There is, ultimately, only one truth -- cogito, ergo sum -- everything else is an assumption." - Me, my swansong.
Re: Terminal notifications like in elementary OS?
UNdistract-me??? I dont think that means what the author thinks it means.
Re: Terminal notifications like in elementary OS?
Added undistract-me there as an answer:https://askubuntu.com/questions/748860/ ... -in-ubuntu
https://askubuntu.com/a/983661/403828
Haha, good catch! But it does what it's supposed to do for this purpose. Notifying you of long terminal commands.UNdistract-me??? I dont think that means what the author thinks it means.
Join us on the Linux Mint Telegram group.
Re: Terminal notifications like in elementary OS?
And upvoted!orschiro wrote:...
Added undistract-me there as an answer:
https://askubuntu.com/a/983661/403828
...
-
- Level 1
- Posts: 48
- Joined: Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:07 pm
Re: Terminal notifications like in elementary OS?
You can try to uses one of these two https://github.com/variadico/noti
https://github.com/yfiton/yfiton
https://github.com/yfiton/yfiton
Re: Terminal notifications like in elementary OS?
Although it's not the same thing, I do have an alias for "long terminal commands", which is basically, commands of which I wish to be notified their completion. Here's the alias:
And for something more important:
This way you don't get inundated with notifications for things of which you needn't be notified.
Makes use of the
Not sure why I posted this exactly, lol. Oh well. It's there if somebody finds it useful. My thoughts on your suggestion, though, are also "-0".
Code: Select all
alias yo='/usr/bin/notify-send --urgency=normal "Your normal job in `/usr/bin/tty` has completed."'
Code: Select all
alias YO='/usr/bin/notify-send --urgency=critical "Your critical job in `/usr/bin/tty` has completed."'
Makes use of the
libnotify-bin
package, but it's often installed by default in Mint. This works very nicely with dunst
, but should be fine with most other daemons.Not sure why I posted this exactly, lol. Oh well. It's there if somebody finds it useful. My thoughts on your suggestion, though, are also "-0".
I'm also Terminalforlife on GitHub.