Notifications & Audible Bell

Warp can send you customizable desktop notifications when you are away from the app and quickly re-focus when something meaningful happens in your terminal sessions.

What is it

Notifications can be sent when a command completes after a configurable number of seconds or when a running command needs you to enter a password to proceed. For either of these triggers, Warp will only send you a desktop notification if you are using a different app at the time the trigger is fired. Warp also allows you to enable an audible terminal bell (disabled by default) that can be triggered by a variety of CLI tools (for example, ping -a).

How to access it

Notifications

• Notifications are enabled by default and require system permissions to appear.

• If you've turned Notifications off before, toggle it back on by going to Settings > Features > Session, or quickly toggle Notifications with the Command Palette.

• Customize Notification triggers for long-running commands or password prompts by going to Settings > Features.

On macOS, you will want to Allow or Accept the request so that Warp can send you desktop notifications. If you accidentally denied it or would like to re-enable Notifications later, check the troubleshooting guide below.

Audible Bell

• In Settings, enable an Audible terminal bell in Settings > Features > Terminal.

• In Command Palette, “Enable/Disable Audible Terminal Bell”.

How it works

Notifications Demo

Troubleshooting Notifications

macOS

Warp requires two distinct notification settings to work. Mac system settings found in Mac > System Preferences > Notifications & Focus and Warp app settings found in Settings > Features > Session must both be enabled for Notifications to show. If you have Notifications enabled in the system and Warp, but you still aren't receiving desktop notifications, try the following:

• Make sure that you are navigated away from Warp when you expect to receive the notification.

• Make sure the Do Not Disturb mode is turned off in Mac > System Preferences > Notifications > Notifications & Focus > Focus.

• Go to Mac > System Preferences > Notifications & Focus > Notifications and select Warp in the list. Make sure either banner style or alert style notifications are selected, then quit and restart Warp.

• To get the MacOS notification prompt to show again for Warp, run defaults delete dev.warp.Warp-Stable Notifications, then restart Warp and toggle on the Settings > Features > Receive desktop notifications from Warp.

• Once all of the above is done, please Restart MacOS to apply the changes and that should help with restoring notifications in Warp.

Windows

Warp requires two distinct notification settings to work. Windows system settings found in Settings > System > Notifications > Warp and Warp app settings found in Settings > Features > Session must both be enabled for Notifications to show.

If you have Notifications enabled in the system and Warp, but you still aren't receiving desktop notifications, try the following:

• Make sure that you are navigated away from Warp when you expect to receive the notification.

• Make sure the Do Not Disturb mode or Focus is turned off.

• Go to System > Notifications and select Warp in the list. Make sure notifications are turned on, then quit and restart Warp.

Linux

Warp requires two distinct notification settings to work. Linux system settings found in Settings > Notifications > Warp and Warp app settings found in Settings > Features > Session must both be enabled for Notifications to show.

If you have Notifications enabled in the system and Warp, but you still aren't receiving desktop notifications, try the following:

• Make sure that you are navigated away from Warp when you expect to receive the notification.

• Make sure the Do Not Disturb mode (if your distribution supports it) is turned off.

• Go to Settings > Notifications and select Warp in the list. Make sure notifications are turned on, then quit and restart Warp.

Please reach out to us if any other issues.