NCIDpop popup window, or the Call History or Preferences window is invoked from the Menu Bar icon, the windows remain hidden behind other windows unless NCIDpop is the current 'front' application.
Is this the correct behaviour?
Dave
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Thanks for that. I was wondering if it was just my configuration.
So the next question: has anyone found a way to make the windows to popup to the front?
An alternative would be to make NCIDpop use the OSX notification service for the incoming call popup. So far I've not found a way to do this. Does anyone use OSX notifications for this task?
Dave
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I do not have a Mac but I wrote an alert script for Gnome that displays notifications. The output module is for the ncid client and is called ncid-alert.
Perhaps you can modify the simple ncid-alert shell script to do what you want. I start the client using this command line to run ncid in GUI mode with an output module:
ncid --program ncid-alert &
If you just want a popup this is the command line:
ncid --no-gui --program ncid-alert &
If you write a module, give it a new name so a new release of NCID will not overwrite it. You can view current module names in ncid-modules. Maybe call it ncid-osxpopup.
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I'd already found the stackexchange threads you mention, but not managed to get them to work from the NCIDpop Preferences 3rd-part notifications text string.
ncid-alert is a new one to me (It wasn't on the NCIDpop dmg I downloaded), I'll have a look at it.
However, I should have said at the beginning that I'm impressed with NCID and how straightforward it was to get running. It does most of what I want and the popups are a minor inconvenience.
Dave
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NCIDpop 0.10.5.0 running on Mac OS 10.11.6 ...
NCIDpop popup window, or the Call History or Preferences window is invoked from the Menu Bar icon, the windows remain hidden behind other windows unless NCIDpop is the current 'front' application.
Is this the correct behaviour?
Dave
Yes. Behaves the same on my Mac OS X 10.7.5 also.
Thanks for that. I was wondering if it was just my configuration.
So the next question: has anyone found a way to make the windows to popup to the front?
An alternative would be to make NCIDpop use the OSX notification service for the incoming call popup. So far I've not found a way to do this. Does anyone use OSX notifications for this task?
Dave
Hi Dave,
I do not have a Mac but I wrote an alert script for Gnome that displays notifications. The output module is for the ncid client and is called ncid-alert.
I found some ways to send a OSX notification from the command line: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/57412/how-can-i-trigger-a-notification-center-notification-from-an-applescript-or-shel
This page shows another way to do it: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/238814/send-notification-from-command-line
Perhaps you can modify the simple ncid-alert shell script to do what you want. I start the client using this command line to run ncid in GUI mode with an output module:
If you just want a popup this is the command line:
If you write a module, give it a new name so a new release of NCID will not overwrite it. You can view current module names in ncid-modules. Maybe call it ncid-osxpopup.
Hi John, thanks for your reply.
I'd already found the stackexchange threads you mention, but not managed to get them to work from the NCIDpop Preferences 3rd-part notifications text string.
ncid-alert is a new one to me (It wasn't on the NCIDpop dmg I downloaded), I'll have a look at it.
However, I should have said at the beginning that I'm impressed with NCID and how straightforward it was to get running. It does most of what I want and the popups are a minor inconvenience.
Dave
Dave,
I have NCIDpop running on multiple Macs configured to call Growl. Growl will provide a notification that is always on top.
In NCIDpop preferences for using a 3rd party notifier, I use the following line to invoke Growl for calls:
And I use the following to invoke Growl for NCID messages:
Thanks
I haven't got Growl on my machine but I've been playing with alerter which seems lightweight and does what I want.
Dave
Last edit: Dave Linton 2016-12-11