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Notifies you when long-running terminal commands complete
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Notifies you when long-running terminal commands complete

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# undistract-me



Notifies you when long-running terminal commands complete.



## What is this?



Does this ever happen to you?



You're doing some work, and as part of that you need to run a command on the

terminal that takes a little while to finish.  You run the command, watch it

for maybe a second and then switch to doing something else – checking

email or something.



You get so deeply involved in your email that twenty minutes fly by.  When

you switch back to your terminal the command has finished, but you've got no

idea whether it was nineteen seconds ago or nineteen *minutes* ago.



This happens to me a lot.  I'm just not disciplined enough to sit and watch

commands, and I'm not prescient enough to add something to each invocation to

tell me.  What I want is something that alerts me whenever long running

commands finish.



This is it.



Install this, and then you'll get a notification when any command finishes

that took longer than ten seconds to finish.



## Installation



### From the Ubuntu repositories



    $ sudo apt install undistract-me



### From the branch



    $ bzr checkout --lightweight lp:undistract-me

    $ . undistract-me/long-running.bash

    $ notify_when_long_running_commands_finish_install



### Add to your Bash



    $ echo 'source /etc/profile.d/undistract-me.sh' >> ~/.bashrc



## Configuration



By default, a long-running command is any command that takes more than 10s to

complete.  If this default is not right for you, set

`LONG_RUNNING_COMMAND_TIMEOUT` to a different number of seconds and export it.

It is possible to disable notifications for certain commands by adding them 

space-separated to `LONG_RUNNING_IGNORE_LIST` variable.



By default, the notification will only show if the active window is not the 

window the command is running in. If this is not right for you, (eg. if you 

are an Emacs user), you can set IGNORE_WINDOW_CHECK to 1 to skip the window

check.



In addition to a visual notification, you can make undistract-me notify you 

by playing an audible sound along with the notification popup by simply 

setting the variable UDM_PLAY_SOUND to a non-zero integer on the command line.

This functionality requires that pulseaudio-utils and sound-theme-freedesktop 

(which provides the notification sound file) be installed on a Debian-based 

system.



## Licensing



All of undistract-me, including this file, is made available with the Expat

license.  See `LICENSE` for details.



## Getting help



There's no dedicated IRC channel, but feel free to ping `jml` on Freenode,

probably in the `#ubuntu-devel` channel.



Alternatively, ask questions or file bugs on the

[undistract-me](https://launchpad.net/undistract-me) Launchpad project.



## Credits



[Glyph Lefkowitz](http://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/) wrote

[a neat hack to provide ZSH-like preexec support for bash](http://glyf.livejournal.com/63106.html).



A lot of help from [Chris Jones](http://www.tenshu.net/) of

[Terminator](http://www.tenshu.net/p/terminator.html).



[Mikey Neuling](https://github.com/mikey/) and Stephen Rothwell have made huge

improvements to the performance and quality of the shell script.  I'm amazed,

humbled and grateful.