Terminal Idle Monitor

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Keep track of your terminal commands

and get notified when things get stuck or run for too long.

Features

• 🕒 Idle Tracking: Notifies you if a command hasn't produced output for a specific duration.
• ⏱️ Total Time Tracking: Alerting you when a process exceeds a total run-time threshold.
• 🛑 Auto-Terminate: Automatically kill processes that exceed your specified run-time or idle thresholds.
• 🧊 Gentle & Hard Termination: Supports sending Ctrl+C (SIGINT) for graceful stops, with automatic hard-close escalation.
• 🚨 Obnoxious Mode: Flashes the VS Code UI and uses modal popups for unmissable alerts.
• 💤 Snooze: Silence alerts for a specific command for 5, 10, or 15 minutes.
• 📊 Status Bar Integration: Live updates of runtime and idle state with dynamic icons.
• 🏷️ Tag-Style Exclusions: Modern exclusion management with tag-based patterns and quick removal.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes the following settings:

• terminalIdleMonitor.enabled: Enable/disable all monitoring.
• terminalIdleMonitor.idleTimeout: Seconds before an idle notification (Default: 60s).
• terminalIdleMonitor.totalTimeout: Minutes before a total duration notification (Default: 5m).
• terminalIdleMonitor.onlyMonitorActive: Restrict monitoring to the active terminal tab only.
• terminalIdleMonitor.autoTerminateEnabled: Enable automated process termination.
• terminalIdleMonitor.enableExclusions: Enable terminal title patterns to ignore.
• terminalIdleMonitor.excludePatterns: Comma-separated list of titles to exclude.
• terminalIdleMonitor.useSigInt: Attempt to send Ctrl+C before killing the terminal.
• terminalIdleMonitor.hardTerminateRetries: Number of SIGINT attempts before force-closing.
• terminalIdleMonitor.obnoxiousMode: Enable UI flashing and modal popups.

Requirements

Requires VS Code Shell Integration to be enabled (default in most modern VS Code setups).