-open: Click terminal-notification then brings another notification

[charlottehu111]

Please check everything that applies to your issue:

• [x] I looked in closed issues and it has not already been answered
• [ ] My issue appeared with a terminal-notifier update
• [ ] I'm using a tool that uses terminal-notifier (guard-notifier, node-notifier...)

To help us debug your issue please include:

• the macOS version you use macOS big Sur
• terminal-notifier version 2.0.0
• how did you install terminal-notifier (binary download, homebrew, ruby gem...)? homebrew
• step-by-step reproduction instructions

1. open 'terminal' in macos
2. enter "terminal-notifier -message 'hello'"
3. It will show:
4. If you click the notification box, it will bring another same notification box again!
5. If you click any of the box, you will get more boxes. This will result in that '-open' can't be used, because when you click the box, it will bring the box, not open url in browser.

Hope someone help me with this issue...

Common issues and solution:

• I'm using tmux -> see #115
• I'm using iterm2 -> see #147
• I want to change the icon -> see https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier/issues/197#issuecomment-301305576
• I want sticky notifications or action buttons -> please use alerter

Thanks!

[nano9g]

I'm seeing this too, and it appears to have started after the Big Sur 11.6 update. I know it was working correctly before that.

[garyrob]

I am seeing it too, and like charlottehu111, it only started with Big Sur 11.6.

[johnlee999]

I'm having the same issue too, and it was right after I installed Big Sur 11.6.

[synconclick]

I am also having the same issue and I am on Big Sur 11.6. Please fix this soon!

[nicolasff]

I'd like to note that in addition to -open no longer working, -execute is also broken now. So you can't replace -open https://google.com' with -execute '/usr/bin/open https://google.com', for example.

I haven't tried the fix linked above since it's not merged yet, but for anyone hitting this you might want to try replacing terminal-notifier with alerter, linked in the first post on this page (direct GitHub link). That's what I did in my scripts and I have restored the features that were broken by this bug.

alerter works slightly differently, but can be used to do the same thing. For example if you had:

terminal-notifier -title 'my title' -message 'my message' -open 'https://google.com'

Then you can replace it with:

outcome=$(alerter -title 'my title' -message 'my message')
if [[ $outcome == '@CONTENTCLICKED' ]]; then
    open 'https://google.com'
fi

[warmup72]

Hi, is there a posibility/plan to fix this issue?

[garyrob]

Maybe this project should be forked? If I depended on it more, I'd consider doing so myself. But I switched to Alerter when this problem started.

[julienXX]

Sorry I don't own a Mac at the moment (mine died and not sure I'll have the funds for a new one soon). I guess Apple changed their APIs I'll need to look into this but time is an issue for me these days.

[dejuknow]

johnlee999's pull request above fixed the issue for me.

https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier/pull/289

[warmup72]

Thx for your replys! Didn´t know how to use such a pull request

[mpolden]

Clicking the notification works again for me after upgrading to macOS Monterey.

[vszakats]

It also works correctly again with Big Sur 11.6.1.