termux-notification: what are actions? about termux-api-package

[xalexalex]

Okay, the help is accessible with termux-notification --help-actions (in termux-api-package v0.46). Please feel free to reopen this issue or draft a pull request to change the text!

[spiral009]

also

[spiral009]

No it's work fine check the running programs
execute 'ps' or 'top'

[pawamoy]

Yes, it works fine. I never said it was not working though 😉

I'm just saying that it should be explained that the action is a string, executed as a command in a subprocess when the user taps on the notification. That its output will not be displayed. Things like that.

[andb0t]

Related to this: how could I make a tap on the notification focus the termux window? Is there an example somewhere?

By the way, great work with the termux-api. I love it :)

[xalexalex]

@pawamoy I agree that some info on the quirks of --action may help many users. The things that are worth documenting, in my opinion, are at least these:

• you should use actions that do things outside of the terminal, like --action "termux-toast hello". Anything that outputs to the terminal is useless, so the output should either be redirected (--action "ls > ~/ls.txt") or shown to the user in a different way (--action "ls|termux-toast").
• The argument to --action is fed to dash -c, so you don't need escaping or wizardry to run more than one command, it's as easy as --action "this; that; another" or --action "if [ -e file ]; then termux-toast yes; else termux-toast no; fi".
• for anything more complex, you should put your script in a file, make it executable, and just --action ~/bin/script.
• --action invokes dash in a different environment (not a subshell). Thus your environment is lost (most notably $PATH), and ~/.profile is not sourced either. So if you need your $PATH you should either
  • set it explicitly in the script (e.g. export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH")
  • or use something like --action "bash -l -c 'this; that'")

Apologies for any mistakes (it's 1AM here).

Feel free to add something (even in French).

Later we'll decide on the appropriate place for this info. I would like to avoid cluttering termux-notification -h, so I'd either put it in the wiki or in termux-notification --action-help.

[pawamoy]

@xalexalex it's exactly the kind of info I was looking for 😀 I think it would be perfect to have an --action-help or --help-action flag, mirrored in the wiki of course.