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# notify-when-done-i3

![Sample screenshot](http://i.imgur.com/qZeSuOt.png)

## Install

You need `jq` and must use i3 as a window manager.

If you have archlinux, you can download the package from aur

    https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/notify-when-done-i3-git/

or for other distributions

    git clone https://github.com/giuscri/notify-when-done-i3 nwd
    cd nwd
    mkdir ~/.nwd
    cp nwn-preexec.sh ~/.nwd/nwd-preexec.sh
    echo '[[ -f ~/.nwd/nwd-preexec ]] && source ~/.nwd/nwd-preexec.sh' >> ~/.bashrc
    source ~/.nwd/nwd-preexec.sh

## The problem

Some commands take very long time to execute that you either stare at the screen doing nothing
waiting for them to complete, or you totally forget them after you started browsing twitter.

## Solution 1

`notify-send` is easy to use. Just alias some long command, and append the alias
after any *long* command that you will execute.

The problem with this solution, is that most of the time you don't know if the
command you're typing will take very long to execute.

What happens instead, is that you see some command executing for a long time,
after the command has been issued. Also, when you notice that you don't have
the courage to interrupt the execution since who knows?, maybe is going to finish
in 10 seconds from now - instead it will take another 2, 3 minutes.

Moreover, the fact that you have to append an alias to every command is boring,
and you'll eventually forget that until you stumb again in a long command.

## Solution 2 (provided by this package)

Wrap *every* command, and when one command finishes a notification
will be sent if the current workspace is not the same from which
you issued the command. Simple.