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Just use alerter? about terminal-notifier HOT 2 CLOSED

JCsplash commented on June 4, 2024 1

Just use alerter?

from terminal-notifier.

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JCsplash commented on June 4, 2024 4

After digging through the source code, here's what i found. Hope this helps someone.

Terminal-Notifier finishes running immediately after its notifications are sent. Notifications from Alerter require user action before it releases from memory. If you just need notifications without action, use Terminal-Notifier (don't use alerter and set Notification Style to Banner - otherwise there'll be memory leaks)
Terminal-Notifier is packaged as an application and uses applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ aNotification: Notification) to detect whether the user started a new notification or pressed on an existing notification and if so what to do (ex. launch an app, run a shell script..etc). Alerter is packaged as a command line utility and waits for a user response (ex. button press, reply..etc) rather than using applicationDidFinishLaunching in a new instance of Alerter.

I can see why Terminal-Notifier and Alerter are now separate apps in version 2.0 - but perhaps there is a cleaner way to combine the two. I'll look more into this.