How do I add a notification for process completions
Solution 1:
One way to get a popup (a desktop notification) is to install the libnotify-bin package, then add "alert" to your command line, like this:
./configure && make && alert
Note that "alert" is a convenience alias, if you type:
alias alert
you will see that behind the scenes it calls the notify-send command, which has a bunch of interesting options, so you may want to define your own alias to call notify-send in a way that better suits you.