Detect active window?

[Franz1241]

Hey, not sure if this is possible but it would be helpful to only display the notifications/sounds when the terminal is not on focus like Cursor does

[mohak34]

@Franz1241 Yeah this would be pretty useful, no point getting a notification when you're already staring at the terminal.

It's doable but a bit tricky since detecting the focused window works differently on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Plus there's a bunch of different terminal apps to account for (iTerm, Ghostty, Kitty, Alacritty, Windows Terminal, etc.). Going to keep this open as a feature request. Right now focusing on some other notification bugs but would definitely consider this for a future release.

If you want to take a crack at it yourself, PRs are welcome!

[deadcoder0904]

Oh, I guess it's not possible. You might want to keep this issue as open. Otherwise it was hard to find. And I thought this was a feature.

[deadcoder0904]

Oh found this: https://github.com/kdcokenny/opencode-notify

It uses this: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/detect-terminal

[mohak34]

@deadcoder0904 I have implemented this in the beta version. Is it possible for you to check it out and let me know if this works ?
You can get the beta version by using @beta instead of @latest in the opencode config.

{
  "plugin": ["@mohak34/opencode-notifier@beta"]
}

[deadcoder0904]

@mohak34 seems no reason for me to use this now since that one works fine as hell but i'm sure it works.

i tested it by asking it to read file outside of the current repo like from home directory or something & switch to another app & it'll give a permission popup so notifications shall appear. another way was using this command using shell with ! inside opencode:

terminal-notifier -title "Ghostty Test" -message "Click to focus" -sender "com.mitchellh.ghostty" -execute "open -a Ghostty"

[mmirus]

Hey, @mohak34! Thanks for the plugin. Did you end up shipping this feature?

[mohak34]

Hey, @mohak34! Thanks for the plugin. Did you end up shipping this feature?

Hey @mmirus, I'm working on this feature. It does not seem to work consistently across different terminals and in windows. Will probably fix the issues and add it to the release next week or so.

[mmirus]

Awesome! Let me know if you'd like any help testing or anything like that.

[mohak34]

Hey @mmirus, I have implemented it. Could you check if this works on your device and if you face any issues.

To install, use the @beta tag instead of the @latest :

{
  "plugin": ["@mohak34/opencode-notifier@beta"]
}

Then clear the plugin cache and restart OpenCode:

Linux/macOS

rm -rf ~/.cache/opencode/node_modules/@mohak34/opencode-notifier

Windows

Remove-Item -Recurse -Force "$env:USERPROFILE\.cache\opencode\node_modules\@mohak34\opencode-notifier"

You could check if you face any issues with these:

1. Focused terminal (should be silent): Keep your terminal focused, send a message, and wait for it to complete. You should get no notification.
2. Unfocused terminal (should notify): Send a message, switch to another window (browser etc.) before it finishes. You should get a notification.
3. Disable suppression: Add "suppressWhenFocused": false to ~/.config/opencode/opencode-notifier.json and repeat test 1. You should get a notification even while focused.