Can I force notify-send to appear on a different monitor?

Question

I am using notify-send to present occasional information to my users. However, in a two-monitor setup, notify-send always maps the window in the lower-right corner of the right monitor.

The users would like the popup moved to the lower-right corner of the left monitor.

notify-send doesn't appear to allow the -geometry command-line argument, and Control Center -> Window-Specific Settings can't seem to identify the window class automatically.

Is there a way to force notify-send to appear at a specific location, or is there a suitable alternative that comes with RHEL5?

Answer 1

You might try changing the display variable slightly:

DISPLAY=:0.1 notify-send [options] "summary" "body"

Usually, your desktop screens are :0, and the main is :0.0, second is :0.1, and so forth.

If I remember correctly, this should put it on the other screen.

you might need to have a wrapper script or such to change the value of DISPLAY when executing the notify-send application. As long as its in the path before the real one, it'll work nicely without anyone noticing really.