zsh-notify

Desktop notifications for long-running commands in ZSH.

Supported terminals and requirements

⚠️ iTerm2 user? If you don't need support for other terminal have a look at this new project → iterm-notify.

• On macOS: Terminal.app or iTerm2;
• On Linux (and possibly other systems): any terminal application should be supported as xdotool and wmctrl are used to query and modify windows state.

When using the default configuration, notifications are posted using terminal-notifier.app on macOS and notify-send on other systems; usage of custom notifier is described in Configuration.

When using Tmux on Yosemite, reattach-to-user-namespace is required to prevent terminal-notifier to hang (see julienXX/terminal-notifier#115 for details).

Installation and usage

Just clone this repository and source notify.plugin.zsh in your ~/.zshrc, or see below for instructions on installing with some popular package managers.

Configuration

The behavior of zsh-notify can be modified by using zstyle after sourcing notify.plugin.zsh.

• Set a custom title for error and success notifications, when using the built-in notifier.

    zstyle ':notify:*' error-title "Command failed"
    zstyle ':notify:*' success-title "Command finished"
  

  The string #{time_elapsed} will be replaced with the command run time.

    zstyle ':notify:*' error-title "Command failed (in #{time_elapsed} seconds)"
    zstyle ':notify:*' success-title "Command finished (in #{time_elapsed} seconds)"
  

• Change the notifications icons for failure or success. Provide the path to an image, or an URL if you are on macOS.

    zstyle ':notify:*' error-icon "/path/to/error-icon.png"
    zstyle ':notify:*' success-icon "/path/to/success-icon.png"
  

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• Play sounds with error and success notifications when using the built-in notifier. Provide the path to an audio file, or the name of an "alert" sound if you are on macOS.

    zstyle ':notify:*' error-sound "Glass"
    zstyle ':notify:*' success-sound "default"
  

• Have the terminal come back to front when the notification is posted.

    zstyle ':notify:*' activate-terminal yes
  

• Disable setting the urgency hint for the terminal when the notification is posted (Linux only).

    zstyle ':notify:*' disable-urgent yes
  

• Set a different timeout for notifications for successful commands (notifications for failed commands are always posted).

    zstyle ':notify:*' command-complete-timeout 15
  

• Replace the built-in notifier with a custom one at ~/bin/my-notifier. The custom notifier will receive the notification type (error or success) as the first argument, the time elapsed as the second argument, and the command line as standard input.

    zstyle ':notify:*' notifier ~/bin/my-notifier
  

• Use the time elapsed even when the command fails (by default, notifications for command failures are not conditional on the elapsed time).

    zstyle ':notify:*' always-notify-on-failure no
  

• Set a blacklist of commands that should never trigger notifications, using a regex support by grep's extended regular expression syntax:

    zstyle ':notify:*' blacklist-regex 'find|git'
  

• Enable when connected over SSH, which is disabled by default.

    zstyle ':notify:*' enable-on-ssh yes
  

• Disable error reporting (or send it somewhere else)

    zstyle ':notify:*' error-log /dev/null
  

• Force checking of the WINDOWID variable on every command:

    zstyle ':notify:*' always-check-active-window yes
  

Installation with package managers

Antigen

Add antigen bundle marzocchi/zsh-notify to your .zshrc with your other bundle commands.

Antigen will handle cloning the plugin for you automatically the next time you start zsh. You can also add the plugin to a running zsh with antigen bundle marzocchi/zsh-notify for testing before adding it to your .zshrc.

Oh-My-Zsh

1. git clone git@github.com:marzocchi/zsh-notify.git ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/notify
2. Add zsh-notify to your plugin list - edit ~./zshrc and change plugins=(...) to plugins=(... notify)

Note: when cloning, specify the target directory as notify since Oh-My-Zsh expects the plugin's initialization file to have the same name as it's directory.

Zgen

Add zgen load marzocchi/zsh-notify to your .zshrc file in the same function you're doing your other zgen load calls in.