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Bug 73273 - Request for configurable "no more output" notifier in profterm
Request for configurable "no more output" notifier in profterm
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-03-03 13:49 UTC by Christian Rose
Modified: 2021-06-10 14:15 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Christian Rose 2002-03-03 13:49:42 UTC 
Perhaps a configurable "no more output" notifier feature would be useful in
profterm.
For example, imagine that you do a long compile and that you switch to
another desktop or minimize the terminal window during the compile. With
this feature, you could set a timer so that if there was no more output for
that many seconds, you will get a message window indicating that the
command finished, or some other notification, so that you will know when to
go back to the terminal because the compilation has finished.
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-03-05 03:20:24 UTC 
Would this be a per-profile feature or just set up ad hoc for a given
tab do you think?
Comment 2 Christian Rose 2002-03-05 06:58:07 UTC 
I think the latter would need to be the case for it to be really useful.
Comment 3 bugreports 2006-04-24 22:04:24 UTC 
Well, this feature was in good-old {multi-,}gnome-terminal ... there the title was red when output was comming in and blue when it stalled for some seconds... I really miss this a lot
Comment 4 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-04-24 22:20:26 UTC 
One problem I see is that one cannot just use the tab title, and should handle the case of no tab bar...

Another useful color will be one for when a bell is received.  Gaim uses colors in the tab title and is really useful.
Comment 5 Luis Menina 2007-03-28 12:25:51 UTC 
Maybe a notification using libnotify could be displayed after lengthy operation (like 'make'). A workaround is the plain old 'make && mplayer mysong.mp3' for acoustic feedback, or some zenity command for visual feedback: "make && zenity --notification --text "End of compilation". 
Unfortunately, this will not work with jhbuild, though, because it uses an interactive mode.
Comment 6 Debarshi Ray 2013-12-02 17:00:32 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)

> Another useful color will be one for when a bell is received.  Gaim uses colors
> in the tab title and is really useful.

bug 557593 is about the bell
Comment 7 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-06-10 14:15:49 UTC 
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