How to get "command completed" terminal notifications in Fedora 41?

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Now that the gnome-terminal no longer sends those notifications, I am wondering how to get the same behavior in Fedora 41?

This is after I found the discussion in How is the terminal's "notify when shell command finishes" feature implemented?

Basically, in Fedora 40, the gnome-terminal would by default send a notification once a full command line completed. However, the behavior was dropped from Fedora 41 in gnome-terminal.

As a workaround, I installed gnome-console. However, the console will send the notification for every sub-command, which can be noisy.

For example, sleep 3 && sleep 4 will send two notifications, but I only want one, like previously.

A workaround would be to use bash -c 'sleep 3 && sleep 4', but this seems tedious to type every time.

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You could try ptyxis, which is now the default terminal in Gnome Shell. In my test (dnf installed ptyxis), your sleep command shows one notification.

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