Hey guys,
Was given the idea on Reddit to suggest this feature here.
I am wondering whether something like undistract-me could be considered as a default package since it’s incredibly useful for new users to get terminal notifications for completed commands.
I think eOS has this feature, too.
What are your thoughts?
Yours,
Robert
We did look at undistract-me at the Fit and Finish Sprint in London a couple of months ago. Sadly it requires X11 to request window IDs and therefore won’t work in a Wayland session.
FYI:
There are no plans.
I’d be happy to accept a PR that replaced the X-specific stuff with something that worked for both X and Wayland.
https://github.com/jml/undistract-me/blob/master/long-running.bash#L47-L54 might be a good place to start.
Alternatively, undistract-me is tiny and not super well maintained. It wouldn’t be that hard to make a Wayland-specific version, or to make something even more Ubuntu specific than it already is.
https://github.com/jml/undistract-me/issues/49#issuecomment-334125128
There is some hack in .bashrc that could be added (like in Fedora) to do that. I didn’t have time this cycle to look at this properly, but I have this on my roadmap for 18.04 
Glad to hear it’s on the roadmap. It’s something I’ve seen in elementary OS and been quite envious of 
You want to see the GNOME bug, and the corresponding two branches. Upstream of vte/Terminal don’t like the solution, but Fedora carry it as distro patches.
An added complication is that we don’t source vte.sh on Ubuntu for non-login shells (such as those spawned by GNOME terminal/vte), so we have to find a way to do that too. When we talked about it a few years ago in the context of open-new-tab-in-the-cwd-of-current-tab (which FWIW is worked around in GNOME terminal), the bash maintainer (Matthias Klose [doko]) wasn’t happy with adding a non-login-shell equivalent. So part of this task is to speak with him and work out a solution, or otherwise find a way to get vte.sh to be active in terminals.