How to call alerter from script without blocking?

[nilcolor]

Original issue #43 was closed due to Swift refactoring. But question is still there:

Hi,

I'm trying to trigger a notification from inside a bash script, however I do not want the script to wait for a user to click on the notification. I want the script to fire the notification and then continue on to the next line.

I haven't been able to find a way to achieve this by going through the help message of the command - The closest solution I could find was to use the timeout flag, which still causes the script to be blocked for that many seconds.

Can someone please point me in the right direction?

[bdoidge-canva]

For the time being, I just send it to the background and pipe all its output to /dev/null:

set +m
alerter --title "Title" --message "Message" &> /dev/null &

The set +m is strictly optional; it suppresses the PID when the process is sent to the background, as well as the output when the process ends (i.e. the notification is dismissed). If that output doesn't cause you problems with your scripting, I'd omit it.

Bit of a hack, but this might get you unstuck.

[nilcolor]

Yeah, this was also noted in the original issue. The workaround may not look ideal, but it works.

[mkozjak]

Yeah, it's not ideal. If you use alerter in nchat it basically blocks the entire process until the notification is closed. @vjeantet - any thoughts?