About notification:

some time ago i packaged aosd:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1412324

And with aosd_cat you can obtain great results without use a complete gui to show some info while doing other things.


One request (or two):

in my opinion it would be better to set the delay (-t) in seconds or ms.
Also the morse code should have a speed rate parameter (i suppose that not all of us are so experienced to understand something at that speed...)
..Morse is not dead: https://www.fit.ac.jp/~tanaka/fitsat.shtml