Sticky on MacOS?

[AlexanderTserkovniy]

Hi guys,

How to force it to be sticky until user clicks on MacOS?

Tried: timeout: 999999 reply: true reply: true, timeout: 999999 and

timeout: 999999
    }, function () {
      console.log(arguments);
    }

Did not work for me. Thanks.

[mikaelbr]

I don't think sticky is supported yet. There has been an issue with timeout settings in terminal-notifier (used to do notifications), so it might work better when new version is released. Have you tried the master branch and seen what the results are there?

[bolinfest]

It looks like sticky is supported in the version of terminal-notifier you have vendored in. For example, if I clone the repo and run npm install, I can run:

./vendor/terminal-notifier -message hello

The problem I seem to have is that your NotificationCenter code has this:

    timeout = setTimeout(
      function() {
        cp.kill('SIGTERM');
      },
      FAILSAFE_TIMEOUT
    );

which prevents me from having a notification open for more than 30 seconds. Can you please make this configurable?

[mikaelbr]

This is due to a memory leak in the terminal-notifier which has been patched (and is in master), but there are some breaking changes in the way terminal-notifier handles icons which hasn't been resolved yet. The master branch now has the memory leak workaround removed, as the master uses the 1.8 version of terminal-notifier.

[bolinfest]

@mikaelbr Thanks for the context. Is there a task filed against https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier that is tracking this?

[bolinfest]

Hmm, so it looks like the 2.0.0 release of terminal-notifier drops support for sticky notifications and says alerter should be used for those instead?

https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier/releases/tag/2.0.0

alerter seems to be a fairly small, native macOS project:

https://github.com/vjeantet/alerter

[kevinelliott]

I think we need to get off of terminal-notifier since it hasn't had a release since Nov 1, 2017 and seems to apparently still have reduced functionality.

[mikaelbr]

Open to suggestions for alternatives.