Background notifications on long-running commands

[t413]

Get background notifications for long running commands! Running a build? A deploy? Moving files? Anything that takes more than 6 seconds (easily configurable) sends you a slick and unobtrusive system notification:

It works with osx notification center (using terminal-notifier), ubuntu's native notify-send, and cygwin:

Linux

Windows

It supports having a custom message hook (in case you need it to say 'holy smokes batman' for example).

There are a few hacks to do the same thing-- often making heavy use of AppleScript and being very platform-spesefic. This plugin makes a point to run on all three major platforms.

[t413]

Having this has been a huge productivity boost for me-- I'd love to see it more well used and easily enabled.

Similar scripts have cropped up but have been very platform specific. When I started running ubuntu desktop regularly this was the first thing I missed. Adding it as an oh-my-zsh plugin seems perfectly in-line with the project and I spent the time to build and test it to work with as many platforms as possible.

Any feedback on the code, documentation, and/or functionality?

[mcornella]

@t413 thank you for this very well-crafted PR. Do you have a notion of another program that works on non-Unity Linux setups?

[t413]

Thanks! Researching notify-send on linux shows that it's actually a relatively standard utility. Here's the Arch linux wiki page on the topic. Are you running a particular setup you'd like me to test against?

[mcornella]

Thanks! Researching notify-send on linux shows that it's actually a relatively standard utility. Here's the Arch linux wiki page on the topic. Are you running a particular setup you'd like me to test against?

Thank you for that initial push. I actually looked it up a little bit and found this post that got me in the right direction. TL;DR: on Debian you need to install libnotify-bin, as well as in Ubuntu (in which it's actually installed by default). It looks a little different on gnome-shell though:

[robbyrussell]

This looks really cool!

[aL3xa]

+1 I kept smth like this in my custom plugins. Grabbed it from the reddit post. It's really cool that it made it to official plugins.