Use system notifications instead of custom notifications

[michaelaflores]

When AI completes work, this custom notification shows on the top right in macOS. It doesn't respect my system settings about how notifications should behave, and hides my other notifications behind it until I dismiss it. This doesn't feel right, and doesn't give me functionality that I can't get from a normal system notification – if I wanted a persistent one, I can configure that in my per-app notifications for apps using system notifications.

[mac9sb]

Yeah this is a pain point for Zed I will be honest

[kunlinglio]

Agreed. Maybe there should be a configuration settings for users to choose if the zed use the system notification channel.

[Altair-Bueno]

Tbh I tried creating a PR and is harder than it looks. Specially due to windows and linux being crappy systems. Take a look at this fork:

https://github.com/Altair-Bueno/zed

[kunlinglio]

Thanks for trying this out! It seems like GPUI upstream doesn't support native system notification currently. Considering the significant gap in notification APIs between different systems, it may require a discussion on the GPUI API design before implementing this feature in Zed.

[AndrewPBerg]

I’m on Omarchy 3.8.1, using Hyprland with mako as my notification daemon. Zed’s agent notifications are very useful, but they currently appear as Zed-controlled in-app UI rather than being routed through the system notification daemon (see image)

On my setup, this means the agent notification behaves more like a tiled/floating Zed window, instead of a normal desktop notification. Because it bypasses mako, I lose the notification behavior I’ve configured at the system level: placement, timeout, styling, dismissal behavior, and WM integration.

Technically I would lose the Zed controlled "View" and "Dismiss" functionality, and would pass that responsibility to Mako. I'm not sure where Zed sits on switching to system notifs by default, but at least a settings override for system based notifications (like mako) would be a huge W for my setup.

[AlvaroParker]

Hoping to get some traction for this on #58354

[whizzzkid]

Thanks for implementing this @AlvaroParker appreciate it. This will be a nice change.

[JacobNWolf]

Chiming in: I'd really love an external notification bridge too. Like the ability to emit an event that's able to picked up by other apps. Claude Code (in Claude desktop and via CLI), OpenCode, VS Code, and Cursor all support this.

Maybe if/when @AlvaroParker's PR for system notifications gets merged, we can open a new issue for that.