Comment 7 for bug 315932

Thanks for the support for this wishlist item!

I think automatic notification is better than an "alert" alias, as long as it only happens when you are not using the terminal, as my proposed code does.

The system is not noisy at all (since, again, you don't get notification if the terminal is focused) and can be quite useful in practice, especially to tell you when "make" finished.

Adding a success/failure icon seems useful, and perhaps the latest output line could also be provided, but I'm not sure application-specific code is otherwise really useful (any example?)

And yes, it is probably much better to integrate this mechanism in gnome-terminal and konsole, since that will work fine for remote and chrooted shells and avoids the kludge of spawning a process to determine if the terminal is active or not on every prompt.

On the other hand, the bash solution will work in any terminal that provides the WINDOWID variable with the X window ID of the terminal window or any child of it.