Tuesday 15 January 2013

Undistract-me will notify you


Yesterday I came across a short article in WebUpd8 about this little tool called undistract-me. It will alerts you when long-running commands finally complete.

In ubuntu the installation is as simple as this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:undistract-me-packagers/daily
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install undistract-me

Few more steps are needed in order to set it up in one of your terminal's profile.
In Terminal open Edit->Profile Preferences:
In Terminal open Edit->Profile Preferences
In Terminal open Edit->Profile Preferences:
In 'Title and Command tab' check 'Run command as a login shell'.
Run command as a login shell
In 'Title and Command tab' check 'Run command as a login shell'.

Quit all terminal windows. That's all.
It's time to test it.
In a terminal window run 'sleep 11'. After 11 seconds you should see a notification that says „Long command completed“, „ „sleep 11“ took 11 seconds“.

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