Michael gives a great talk about i3 on Google Tech Talks and tells about the urgency hint in a shell. However, no information is given how to actually do that - whenever a process is complete, I want to set the urgency hint in that shell, just as shown in the talk.
The time link to the presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnYN2C...
URxvt.urgentOnBell in your .Xresources filectrl+tHere's a complete guide:
You need the following settings in your i3 config to have the workspace indicator go red and draw a red border around your windows which have the urgency hint set:
client.urgent #2f343a #900000 #ffffff #900000
bar {
colors {
urgent_workspace #2f343a #900000 #ffffff
}
}
According to kempurpy, only urxvt and terminator support this. As I only use urxvt, I needed to set the following in my Xdefaults:
urxvt*urgentOnBell: true
urxvt will now set the urgency hint whenever a bell is encountered; to do that with bash, I simply use the following alias:
alias enable_alert='PS1="$PS1\a"'
I now can make any shell an alerting shell by simply typing "enable_alert".
Make sure your .Xdefaults are in place, you can use xrdb to load the new file:
xrdb ~/.Xdefaults
Hint: If you are using debian, and using urxvturgentOnBell in your config as well as x-terminal-emulator (which is called by i3-sensible-terminal) - that won't work. In that case, use x-terminal-emulatorurgentOnBell or *.URxvt.urgentOnBell.
This is working in my Ubuntu with XMonad, in gnome-terminal, bash:
install xdotool
build seturgent
create ~/bin/pid-urgent, make sure ~/bin is in your $PATH, and make the script executable:
#!/bin/bash
# --any and --name present only as a work-around, see: https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool/issues/14
ids=$(xdotool search --any --pid "$1" --name "dummy")
for id in $ids; do
seturgent "$id"
done
Set the the shell variable PROMPT_COMMAND='pid-urgent $PPID' at login. (I would like to be able to set it only for the next prompt, but that will be for another time.)
Support for several bash children to the same terminal is bad. In my setup, there is only one gnome-terminal running, even if I start several terminal windows. Popping up the urgent window goes to the first terminal I opened.
The simplest way is to have the terminal emulator set urgent on bell (how to do so depends on the TE) and then to include a bell character (\a) in your prompt. As the urgency hint is ignored for focused windows, this won't bother you with short processes.
Asked: 2012-07-04 12:14:08 +0000
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Last updated: Dec 16 '14
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