termux-notification - multiline doesn't work

[ourarash]

Problem description Termux notifications cuts the line and doesn't show strings that don't fit in a line. Using \n or piping to stdin as recommended here doesn't work either. In fact it looks like the piped value is ignored.

Steps to reproduce

ls $PREFIX | termux-notification --title 'Some folders'

Expected behavior Wrap the strings that don't fit in a single line.

Additional information Non-rooted device. Galaxy Note 8.

$ termux-info                                                 Updatable packages:
All packages up to date
Subscribed repositories:
https://dl.bintray.com/grimler/science-packages-21 science/stable
https://dl.bintray.com/grimler/game-packages-21 games/stable
https://termux.net stable/main
https://termux.net stable/main
System information:
Linux localhost 4.9.112-15119493 #2 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 30 19:02:31 KST 2019 aarch64 Android
Termux-packages arch:
aarch64
Android version:
9
Device manufacturer:
samsung
Device model:
SM-N960

The below image shows the of the above command results on my device.

[xalexalex]

Due to a regression, currently stdin doesn't work to set termux-notification's content (#271).

However, multiline still doesn't work:

#doesn't work
termux-notification --content "line 1\nline 2"

#also doesn't work
termux-notification --content "line 1
line 2"

[ourarash]

Any chance this will be fixed?

[fornwall]

Thanks for reporting! Fixed in version 0.44 of the termux-api package.

[ourarash]

Thanks for fixing! How does the multiline work now? Does it need \n or will it wrap automatically?

Also, when will this version be available on google Play?

[xalexalex]

Thanks for fixing! How does the multiline work now? Does it need \n or will it wrap automatically?

Just tested and:

• long lines don't wrap, they just get truncated by ...
• \n doesn't work. Did it work? (is it a regression?)
• actually embedding a newline in the string works. i.e.

termux-notification -c 'hello
world'

Also, when will this version be available on google Play?

termux-api-package does not end up in google play; just pkg up in termux to update it

[ghost]

\n doesn't work. Did it work? (is it a regression?)

Just \n will not work unless it is parsed and replaced with newline character.

[xeffyr]:~:$ echo "a\nb"
a\nb
[xeffyr]:~:$ echo -e "a\nb"
a
b
[xeffyr]:~:$

[xalexalex]

Whoops, sorry, I was referring to the argument to --content and had forgotten about stdin entirely.

So termux-notification --content 'a\nb' won't work, but echo -e 'a\nb' | termux-notification will.

[ourarash]

• \n doesn't work. Did it work? (is it a regression?)
• actually embedding a newline in the string works. i.e.

It now works. I call it from a node script. I used it in my package stock-crypto-monitor to show a multi-line notification. Thanks for the fix!

[langrenfengzi]

"\n" works, but auto-wrap still don't.

[xalexalex]

Confirmed; reopening

Edit to clarify: the feature that's missing is auto-wrapping of long lines ( termux-notification -c 'lorem ipsum dolor sit amet lorem ipsum dolor sit amet' ), while multiline notifications work if the user specifies where the line break should be.

[sumithemmadi]

You can do like this if you want to print next line.

termux-notification --content  "$(echo  -e  "line1\nline2")"