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Bug 694807 - Desktop Notifications of Completed Commands
Desktop Notifications of Completed Commands
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 557593
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-02-27 17:46 UTC by Varad
Modified: 2013-03-10 17:21 UTC
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Description Varad 2013-02-27 17:46:08 UTC 
After executing commands that take a long time to complete, some users switch windows and start working on something else. They then have to manually check the terminal window to see if the command has completed, and sometimes it takes them long to realize that they had left something running in the terminal which has completed long ago, and that they could have given the next command earlier.

This could be avoided if gnome-terminal could present a desktop notification of a command's completion, so that the user wouldn't have to keep on checking the command's status.
Comment 1 Varad 2013-02-27 17:48:34 UTC 
I'm interested in working on this.
Comment 2 Christian Persch 2013-02-27 17:56:31 UTC 
Why does this need to be a g-t feature, when you can just as well use the shell to do this? E.g.

$ foobar && zenity --notification --text "foobar done!"
Comment 3 Varad 2013-02-27 18:12:08 UTC 
It'd be nicer if this comes as built-in feature with the terminal. The user won't have to type the extra part (and most of them don't). Also, this would only be activated for commands that are taking a long time to run, and not for each and every simple command.
Comment 4 Christian Persch 2013-03-03 12:57:30 UTC 
You could also have a PROMPT_COMMAND in the shell that emits the notification if the time since the last prompt is greater than some value, etc...
Comment 5 Christian Persch 2013-03-10 17:21:23 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 557593 ***