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poetaman edited this page Jun 28, 2025 · 1 revision

macOS recently (2025) made enabling notifications for commandline applications more non-intuitive. This page details a one time change you need to do to enable notifications for commandline applications like arttime. Screenshots are shown at the bottom of the page to accompany the steps mentioned below.

Step 1/2:

  • Launch in-built application "Script Editor"
  • Paste the following one line script in the editor:
    • display notification "Hello, World!"
  • Press |> run button to "Run the Script", you would see a notification

Step 2/2:

  • Launch System Settings
  • Select Notifications
  • Scroll down and select Script Editor
  • Enable "Allow notifications"
  • Choose style as "Alerts"

You are all set and can close Script Editor without saving the document and System Settings as well!

Script Editor window (Step 1/2):

script_editor_window

Notifications selected in System Settings (Step 2/2):

notifications

Script Editor selected in Notifications (Step 2/2):

notifications_script_editor

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