Make notifications 'sticky' about terminal-notifier HOT 15 CLOSED

Do you mean globally configuring terminal-notifier to always use 'sticky' notifications, via System Preferences?

I'd still love a way to control 'stickiness' on a per-invocation basis, analogous to what growlnotify offers for Growl.

Like you, however, I don't know if the Notification Center APIs allow that.

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+1 for per-notification stickiness

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Here's a PR to add a note about the system preference to the README: #244

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Totally goofed on this one. I see now that the user can do this themselves. doh! This issue should be closed.

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+1 for per-notification stickiness

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There does not appear to be a sanctioned API for this, in case anyone finds a solution let me know.

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Currently you are using Banners which doesn't use sticky but Alerts does by default.

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@cdenneen Are you saying that this can be done through the APIs? If so, please let us know or submit a patch.

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It's possible to use Alerts by default by adding this key to Terminal Notifier-Info.plist:

  <key>NSUserNotificationAlertStyle</key>
  <string>alert</string>

But I don't see how we could switch styles on demand.

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It would definitely be nice to have a command line option for stickiness, instead of having to set it globally in System Preferences.

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Absolutely agree. This is the only reason I still use growlnotify for some things

On May 2, 2014, at 2:21 PM, ceilingcat [email protected] wrote:

It would definitely be nice to have a command line option for stickiness, instead of having to set it globally in System Preferences.

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Wouldn't it work if you change globally to Alerts from Banners, then accept an expiration option (and default it if not set), then use a LaunchAgent to clean up expired notifcations?

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But alerts "steal focus" right? That would be exactly what I do not. I just want something to stay there until I can deal with it.

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Alerts don't appear to steal focus. I checked by running this sleep 5 && terminal-notifier -message test and then switching to a few different apps before the notification was activated. It didn't steal focus from any of them.

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You can use the -timeout flag to dismiss the notification automatically after a duration. This works with the alert style notification. Another idea (which is far from ideal) is to make a copy of the terminal-notifier app and set original to alert style, and the copied one to banner style (shrug).

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