My screen locks and it's a pain to unlock occasionally to check the terminal, so I'm testing whether things finished compiling here by putting my hand over the vent and seeing whether my laptop is still hot.
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Also, yeah I could have done:
$ compile-command; mplayer finished.ogg
but I didn't think about it when the process started. Next time!
Christopher Allan Webber at 2015-05-13T02:21:23Z
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I use something similar to: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1pooe6/zsh_tip_notify_after_long_processes/
Such that I get notifications when long running commands finish :)
The only disadvantage is that I have a blacklist of commands to ignore, which is not particularly complete, which means I do get some nonsense notifications (e.g.git commit finished, if I have taken a long while to write a commit message).