zmq-notify

A ZeroMQ-based command-line notification system in Python

Introduction

Got notification envy? You're using a CLI most of the time but you see those people running X desktops receiving sweet notifications all the time?

Say no more!

This little program consists of a zmq server (zmq-notifier.py) an two clients, one to send new notifications to the server (zmq-notify-send.py) and one to retrieve a notification from the server. (zmq-notify-get.py)

The server keeps the last 5 notifications in memory and returns a notification when you issue a GET request (through zmq-notify-get.py). Next time you issue a GET the next notification in the list is returned, and so on.

How can I use this?

Start the server in the background:

$ zmq-notifier.py &

Send some notifications to it:

$ zmq-notify-send This is a notification

$ zmq-notify-send "This should work too"

###But where do you display the notifications?

• in tmux:

  :set -g status-right '#(zmq-notify-get.py)'

  :set -g status-interval 5

###Tracking when a command in a terminal is finished

• export PROMPT_COMMAND='BLAH=$(history 1); MYTTY=$(tty); zmq-notify-send.py command "${BLAH:7}" finished on $MYTTY'
• or put it in a file, e.g. traceon in the repo and do this: $ . traceon
• when you want to 'unfollow' a terminal, do: $ unset PROMPT_COMMAND
• or: $ . traceoff