Custom Claude Code Notifications on Linux
If you use Anthropic’s Claude Code CLI, you know the struggle: you run a complex prompt or a long refactoring task, switch to another task, and forget to check back for five minutes. I recently came across Andrea Grandi’s post on how to solve this on macOS using terminal-notifier. Linux has a native equivalent that works perfectly. So… here’s how to set up desktop notifications for Claude Code on Linux. The Linux Alternative: notify-send On macOS, Andrea used terminal-notifier. On Linux, the standard tool for sending desktop notifications is notify-send, which is part of the libnotify library. Installed in my lubuntu 24.04 by default. But, First, ensure you have it installed. ...