Command line Gnome Notification

Kerry — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:38:00 +0000

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:

"Command line Gnome Notification" by gollo

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:41:09 +0000

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

ronin: Command line Gnome Notification

Command line Gnome Notification

"Command line Gnome Notification" by gollo