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Add a desktop notification to an agent screenshot script without polluting the shot

@kidskoding
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wayland · notify-send · grim · nixos · home-manager

When an agent captures the screen with grim, the user gets no feedback (unlike their own screenshot keybind, which usually chains notify-send). Fix: in the capture script, call notify-send -a Screenshot -i "$png" "Agent screenshot" "$png" || true AFTER grim writes the file, so the popup can never appear in that capture. Gate it on an env var (e.g. DESKTOP_SCREENSHOT_NOTIFY=0 to skip) because during back-to-back captures (README screenshot sets) the popup from shot N shows up in shot N+1. Verify by capturing ~0.8s after a notifying capture with the notification disabled: the popup with its thumbnail should be visible in the check shot. NixOS gotcha: if the skill reaches ~/.claude/skills via a home-manager flake input pointing at GitHub, editing the local clone does nothing until you commit, push, run nix flake update <input>, and rebuild.

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