├── remind
└── README.md


/remind:
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 1 | #!/bin/bash
 2 | 
 3 | show_usage() {
 4 | 	echo "Usage: remind <command>"
 5 | }
 6 | 
 7 | get_current_window_id() {
 8 | 	i3-msg -t get_tree \
 9 | 		| grep -o '{[^{]*"focused":true[^}]*}' \
10 | 		| sed 's/.*"id":\([^,]*\),.*/\1/'
11 | }
12 | 
13 | remind() {
14 | 	TARGET_WINDOW="${1}"
15 | 	shift
16 | 	eval "${@}"
17 | 	i3-nagbar -m "[${?}] ${*}" -b "Go" "i3-msg [con_id=\"${TARGET_WINDOW}\"] focus" >/dev/null 2>&1 &
18 | 	echo -e "\a"
19 | }
20 | 
21 | if [ "${BASH_SOURCE}" = "${0}" ]; then
22 | 	if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
23 | 		show_usage >&2
24 | 		exit 1
25 | 	fi
26 | 	remind "$(get_current_window_id)" "${@}"
27 | fi
28 | 


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/README.md:
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 1 | # Has this ever happened to you?
 2 | You start a long-running command that you know will take several minutes to
 3 | finsh. So in the mean time you switch away to check email/facebook/whatever.
 4 | Hours later you realize that the command you started has been finished for ages
 5 | but you forgot to switch back.
 6 | 
 7 | This was literally happening to me almost every day, often several times a day.
 8 | I could probably have solved world hunger with all that lost productivity.
 9 | 
10 | # If you use the i3 window manager, now there's a solution!
11 | This simple script might just be the solution to your problem. When you know a
12 | command you're about to run is going to take a while, prefix it with 'remind'
13 | and get notified when it terminates. Better yet, a handy 'Go' button will take
14 | you right back to the window where you ran the command.
15 | 
16 | # Usage
17 |     adam@brigantine:/usr/src/linux$ remind make
18 | 
19 | 


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