Small terminal icon in title when using -appIcon option

[stopiccot]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/v3syj6a0t3631f9/Screenshot%202015-05-04%2018.32.58.png?dl=0

Not sure if it's a bug or an OS X intended behaviour

[julienXX]

It's the intended behavior.

[arkarkark]

Is there a way to suppress or change that little icon? It only seems to show up if I pass in -appIcon

[danielbayley]

@julienXX Can it be suppressed?

[julienXX]

Unfortunately I didn't found a way to suppress it so far. You still can make yourself a custom build with a transparent icon I guess.

[julienXX]

Also if you make a custom build with a new icon, you have to run:
sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.dock.iconcache -exec rm {} \; to clear the cache.

[Max-108]

I've replaced both Terminal.icns with transparent icon versions in both /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/terminal-notifier-1.6.3/vendor/terminal-notifier/ and /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/terminal-notifier-1.6.3/vendor/terminal-notifier/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/Resources/.

I even changed the app icon via the Finder info-window to a pasted blank one. I then ran the command above that correctly clears the Dock's icon cache and restarted, but yet the pesky little Terminal-Icon remains in the Title field - What have I missed?

[julienXX]

@Max-108 you have to download the source code update and re-compile it with your new icon.

[vitorgalvao]

Hope @julienXX doesn’t mind me referencing it (since I’m the author), but I’ve been using a custom-built script for this for quite a long time, with much success.

You simply run it with customise-terminal-notifier --icon <file> --bundle <bundle_id> and it’ll download the latest version of terminal-notifer to your Desktop and set your custom icon. You can then take that binary and use it as usual, without the need to set -appIcon and without having to recompile. To install the script, simply download it or do brew install vitorgalvao/tiny-scripts/customise-terminal-notifier (if you use Homebrew).

Keep in mind, though, the icon will be set permanently on that specific binary, but if you’re changing it to embed terminal-notifer in other apps, it’s often enough. If you’re distributing it, though, don’t forget to include terminal-notifier’s license. Also, in that case there may be (sometimes it happens, others it doesn’t) a one-time warning about the binary having been changed (only the icon is changed).

[julienXX]

Thanks @vitorgalvao! Do you mind if I reference your script in the README?

[vitorgalvao]

Do you mind if I reference your script in the README?

Don’t mind at all. Go for it.

[Max-108]

Thank you for the PnP solution @vitorgalvao. (I'm new, so if thanks are considered extraneous here, sorry, and feel free to delete)

[julienXX]

@Max-108 thanks are always welcomed :)

[reubano]

FYI, I figured out a way without recompiling

• use automator to create an application (named myapp in this example)
• change the icon (note, you can also drag and drop a icns file if you have it)
• call terminal-notifier with -sender com.apple.automator.myapp

[julienXX]

@reubano Excellent, thanks!

[mikemcduffie]

julienXX,

Would it be possible to add a default notification when the binary is executed via vitorgalvao's customise-terminal-notifier? The issue is the notification generated when a user double-clicks/opens the customized app. A blank notification titled "Terminal" is generated.

[vitorgalvao]

For a bit more context on @mikemcduffie’s comment, see vitorgalvao/tiny-scripts#24.

To be clear, @mikemcduffie, customise-terminal-notifier has nothing to do with it. If you download an unmodified terminal-notifier it’ll behave exactly as you describe.

Issue is you’re not just supposed to open terminal-notifier while telling it nothing. You’re expected to give it the parameters you want it to run with.

[mikemcduffie]

@vitorgalvao,

Yes, I understand that. The issue I'm trying to work around is an uninformed user opening the helper app and being confused. I know it's the regular behavior of the CLI binary.

I moved the discussion here since it would require terminal-notifier to change to improve the bundled version.

[mikemcduffie]

I think I see why @vitorgalvao and I are talking past each other. I had forgotten that terminal-notifier is an app bundle in it's standard deployment. It's been so long since I installed it that I misremembered and thought it was a CLI binary only and customise-terminal-notifier was unique in bundling it. My bad.

Homebrew buries the app bundle so deep, it's not an issue for uninformed users. I had wanted to distribute the customized app with an Automator service in order to get a unique icon with the -open option. That and making it easier for novice users to install via drag and drop.

I still believe that user notification on app bundle launch is still desirable given the customized versions and request @julienXX consider it as an enhancement.

Any way, thanks again to both of you for your efforts.

[vitorgalvao]

@mikemcduffie I see your point. Perhaps the default message could be a note to the user they shouldn’t be double-clicking on it, since it should be required by other apps.

[laxmikanta415]

This solved my problem :

run this command in terminal after downloading :customise-terminal-notifier

** path/customise-terminal-notifier-master/customise-terminal-notifier -i path/Terminal.icns -b com.bundle.identifier