Show HN: Alert yourself after a long-running task in terminal

• Notica

  3 342 0.0 JavaScript

  Send browser notifications from your terminal. No installation. No registration.

I wrote Notica (https://notica.us) to do something similar. It uses web browser notifications so it works on the servers you are SSH'd into and also to your phone.

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• yo

  2 383 0.0 Swift

  Send Notification Center messages from the command line (by sheagcraig)

I hear that `terminal-notifier` is pretty much dead and a better replacement with new MacOS APIs is [0]. In any case, I opted against it because iTerm actually supports this natively, in addition to a few other neat features, and it will work over SSH. I wrote about my solution here [1].

[0] https://github.com/sheagcraig/yo

• noti

  4 4,547 4.6 Go

  Monitor a process and trigger a notification.

I use `noti` for this:

`some_task && noti`

`noti some_task`

both work.

https://github.com/variadico/noti

• tmux

  207 32,923 8.3 C

  tmux source code

  

I've recently coded something like this, however with significant differences from what OP is presenting. Here are the most important differences:

- Using a zsh plugin, it works for every command that I run, but only if I need it, so it doesn't create extra noise. Meaning, it is automatically activated for terminals that go out of focus. I don't need a special suffix to activate it. I recently contributed a tmux pull request just for that [1].

- It's a fixed size, flashing window in a side monitor, so if I got off the chair after execution started, I still notice the termination when I return to my workstation.

- If I change my focus back to the unfocused terminal where the termination happened, the notification disappear by itself (no extra action needing to click the 'x'!).

- It contains information regarding the tmux pane in which the termination has happened. This is needed, because I have multiple tmux sessions each having multiple windows with multiple panes in it, and all this on top of multiple XFCE workspaces.

- It's a server-client architecture, so clients running on separate host shells can run on a different computer and am able to send over termination notifications to the server that hosts the GUI (my workstation desktop).

[1] https://github.com/tmux/tmux/pull/2558

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