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Often you need to do things in the command line that take time to finish. It would be great to be able to get a notification when tasks are finished and you're returned to the command prompt.

I'm aware of the "monitor silence" option in Konsole. Trouble is that that's triggered by nothing being output for a few seconds, even if the current task isn't finished.

I'm talking about something that just monitors specifically if the command prompt is waiting for your response or not.

Imagine how much more you could get done (especially compiling) if you knew the moment that a long task finished, and you didn't have to sit there watching?

It probably should be an option, rather than fixed, but yes, I'd like that. I'll vote for it

You can always do

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$ long-task; kdialog --msgbox 'Done'

annew wrote:It probably should be an option, rather than fixed

Dear Lord, yes! I hope it didn't come across that I was saying it should do this for *every* command! I was thinking something more like how you can turn on "Monitor for silence / activity" and turn it off again when done.

@Alec, thanks, I'll use that! That said, I'm lazy. I don't want to *need* to know that command, and even if I do, I'd rather just have an option in a menu. Like I said. I'm pretty lazy.

I was going to say:
"long-task && kdialog --passivepopup 'Task Complete' 5"

but Alec solution is good:)

Mine is more 'plasma' style :D:D

MirzaD wrote:Mine is more 'plasma' style :D:D

Thanks! I like "lazy and don't have to remmember a CLI command to work" style. Failing that, Plasma style is the next best thing.

You can also add

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alias d="kdialog --passivepopup 'Task Complete'"

to ~/.bash_profile so that instead of remembering the command you could just write "d".

(Also I suggest not using a timeout because you will not notice your task finished if you were afk at that time)

And I suggest to not use &&, because then it won't run if the command fails.

This was brought up in another topic (not talking about yours Kubuntiac). I don't think we reached any conclusion, but I wrote that don't know if it's possible for Konsole to know when a command has finished.