faah 2.0.1

Shell notification sound on selected exit codes; interactive installer for zsh/bash/fzf.

faah

Play a short sound when your interactive shell hits “command not found” (127) or “not executable” (126) by default — not for every failing command (false, grep miss, etc.), unless you opt in. Optional fzf defaults and Cursor / VS Code helper file copies.

Install (PyPI / uv) — recommended

pip install faah
# or
uv tool install faah

Then run the interactive installer (requires a TTY):

faah
# same as:
faah install

This syncs bundled shell assets into ~/.config/faah/ (or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/faah when XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set) and adds a single marked block to ~/.zshrc and/or ~/.bashrc that sources the managed init/faah.{zsh,bash} files.

Non-interactive (e.g. CI):

faah install --yes

Other commands:

Command	Purpose
faah doctor	Check mpv/ffplay/paplay/aplay, fzf, sound file
faah doctor --fix	On Debian/Ubuntu with apt-get, install missing tools (sudo)
faah play	Play the sound once
faah uninstall	Remove faah blocks from rc files and install/ helpers
faah --version	Package version

Upgrade:

pip install -U faah
# or
uv tool upgrade faah

If you previously installed 2.0.0rc1, upgrade with pip install -U faah (or uv tool upgrade faah) to get the current 2.0.x line (2.0.1 includes the mpv no-window fix for faah play / play-faah.sh).

Development (from this repo)

Uses uv (see pyproject.toml and uv.lock).

uv sync --all-extras
PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1 uv run pytest -q
uv run ruff check src tests
uv run python -m build

Console entrypoint: faah → faah.cli:main.

Repository layout

Everything user-facing after install lives under ~/.config/faah/, populated from a single bundled tree in the Python package:

src/faah/
├── __init__.py          # version
├── cli.py               # Typer CLI
├── sound.py             # play MP3 via mpv/ffplay/…
├── installer/           # rc blocks, sync bundled data, editor copies
└── data/                # only copy of shell assets (sdist/wheel)
    ├── assets/sounds/fahhh.mp3
    ├── scripts/play-faah.sh
    ├── zsh/  bash/  fzf/  init/
    ├── cursor/          # optional editor fragments (→ install/cursor when selected)
    └── vscode/
tests/                     # pytest
.github/workflows/         # CI + PyPI publish

Path	Role
src/faah/	Python package; src/faah/data/ is the bundled shell + sound + editor snippets
src/faah/data/cursor/README.md	Cursor terminal notes
src/faah/data/vscode/README.md	VS Code terminal notes

Environment variables

Variable	Meaning
XDG_CONFIG_HOME	If set, managed config is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/faah (must not point at a parent of your clone such that this path equals the repository root). If unset, faah uses ~/.config/faah (i.e. $HOME/.config/faah).
FAHH_ROOT	Managed config root (default: ~/.config/faah when using installed snippets)
FAHH_SOUND	Path to sound file (default: $FAHH_ROOT/assets/sounds/fahhh.mp3)
FAHH_DISABLED	If non-empty, hooks do nothing
FAHH_PLAY_ON_NONZERO	If set and FAHH_PLAY_EXIT_CODES is unset: play on any non-zero exit
FAHH_PLAY_EXIT_CODES	Space-separated codes that trigger sound (default: 127 126). Use all for any non-zero.
FAHH_IGNORE_EXIT	When mode is all: codes to never trigger sound (default: 130)

Troubleshooting

• No sound: Install mpv or ffplay; run faah doctor.
• A window opens when playing (mpv/ffplay): faah passes --force-window=no and --no-video to mpv, and -nodisp to ffplay. Run faah install --yes to refresh ~/.config/faah/scripts/play-faah.sh, or upgrade faah. If it persists, check mpv --version and your desktop session (Wayland/X11).
• faah install runs the hook instead of the CLI (e.g. you see faah:source: and the Python CLI never runs): Older rc snippets defined a shell function named faah that shadowed the real faah on your PATH. Workaround: run command faah install --yes once (zsh/bash: bypasses the function; same idea as \faah in zsh). After that, faah install updates the marked block to a one-liner that does not define faah, so the CLI works normally.
• source: no such file ... ~/.config/faah/init/faah.zsh: Your rc still runs the faah bootstrap, but ~/.config/faah is missing or incomplete (removed by hand, failed install, etc.). Fix: run faah install --yes (or command faah install --yes if the function still shadows—see above), or remove the faah block from ~/.zshrc / ~/.bashrc (see faah uninstall). To edit rc without loading it: zsh -f then nano ~/.zshrc. The managed line is [[ -r ... ]] && source ... so a missing top-level init file does not error on startup.
• Other errors from faah on startup: The rc line only skips loading when that main init/faah.{zsh,bash} is absent or not readable. It does not silence failures from source itself (e.g. syntax error in that file) or from nested source lines inside managed files (e.g. a partial/corrupt tree). Those messages are intentional so you notice a broken install—run faah install --yes or faah doctor, or remove the faah block.
• assets/, bash/, zsh/, … appeared at the root of your git clone (with XDG_CONFIG_HOME unset): The intended location is ~/.config/faah, not the repo. This usually means ~/.config/faah was a symlink to your clone (or XDG_CONFIG_HOME used to be wrong so $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/faah was the clone). Fix: remove the symlink and use a real directory (mkdir -p ~/.config/faah after removing the link), delete stray copies from the clone (git status, then remove untracked assets/, bash/, … only if they are not part of src/faah/data/), run faah doctor — it reports unsafe if the resolved path still looks like a source checkout. Newer faah versions refuse to sync into a path that looks like the development repository.
• Editors: Integrated terminals must load your interactive shell rc. See src/faah/data/cursor/README.md and src/faah/data/vscode/README.md.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Pre-commit (optional)

pre-commit install
pre-commit run -a

License

Scripts and documentation: MIT License (SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT).

The bundled sound may be subject to separate rights; replace it with your own file if needed.