Command line Gnome Notification 1
From the “it’s almost certainly been done better somewhere else” department, here is my script to fire off a Gnome Notification after a shell command finishes.
a python script:
#!/usr/bin/python
from pynotify import *
import sys
def notify(message=""):
n = Notification("Command Line Completed", message)
n.show()
init("cli notify")
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
notify(sys.argv[1])
else:
notify()
Then just add it to your path and you can append it onto some command:
echo monkey && mynotify.py "some message"
You then get a notification like so:

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Nice one, have been looking for something simple like this for ages. How about making a sound optionally as well?