How can I use the eOS terminal notification in Ubuntu?

Question

elementaryOS has the following feature to notify the user of a finished terminal process.

Is it possible to use this feature in Ubuntu?

Figure 1: Example of eOS terminal notification

I guess it should not be hard. You can use something like sudo apt-get update && notify-send Task "sudo apt-get update" and adapt it to your needings. — dadexix86, Mar 22 '16 at 07:41
Dear @dadexix86, thank you for this "manual" solution. Below answers, however, provide a more automated way which I prefer. — orschiro, Mar 23 '16 at 15:00

DK Bose · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-23T05:50:10.197

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What you want most probably already is available via your ~/.bashrc courtesy this and this:

Note: this assumes you have libnotify-bin installed. If it isn't, just run sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin to get it.

Check that your ~/.bashrc has lines like this:

# Add an "alert" alias for long running commands.  Use like so:
#   sleep 10; alert
alias alert='notify-send --urgency=low -i "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)" "Task finished" "$(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]\s*alert$//'\'')"'

Note that "Task finished" isn't present in the original code.

So, in your specific example, you'll run

sudo apt-get update; alert

If you want the notification to remain on-screen a little longer, use -t 3000 (in milliseconds). Or, if you want the notification to display until you dismiss it, use --urgency=critical.

Here's what I see:

edited Mar 23 '16 at 05:50

answered Mar 22 '16 at 11:06

DK Bose

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Please see http://askubuntu.com/questions/749202/modify-the-alert-alias-in-bashrc for more. – DK Bose Mar 23 '16 at 06:32
Great solution! And it is even supported by default in Ubuntu by now. – orschiro Mar 24 '16 at 15:26
No, I am not. What makes you think that? :) – orschiro Mar 25 '16 at 07:10
The eternal life on the internet. :) Indeed I used dmenu for a while but ultimately stuck with default Ubuntu and use it because it just works. Have fun though! – orschiro Mar 26 '16 at 07:48

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 06 '17 at 05:38

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undistract-me provides notifications for terminal commands that take longer than 10 seconds to complete.

sudo apt install undistract-me
echo 'source /etc/profile.d/undistract-me.sh' >> ~/.bashrc

answered Dec 06 '17 at 05:38

orschiro

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 22 '16 at 15:07

You can set $PROMPT_COMMAND to trigger a notify-send command upon a command's completion in ~/.bashrc:

PROMPT_COMMAND='notify-send --icon=/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/256x256/apps/utilities-terminal.png "Task finished" "$(history | sed -n "\$s/^  [0-9]\+  //p")"'

The caveat is this can become pretty annoying soon, because it will send a notification each time a command is run.

How can I use the eOS terminal notification in Ubuntu?

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