Selecting icon for tray notifications from Bash scripts (KDE)

Question

Q: How to make Qt KDE tray notification from Bash script ?

Q: How to make notifications from scripts running as root ?

Q1: Ok... I see kdialog and notify-send send tray notification. Am I right only notify-send -i allows to setup notification icon?

Q2: In example there is notify-send -i 'dialog-information' icon -> what are other icons available by default ?

Q3: Will it work with other window managers ?

warl0ck · Answer 1 · 2012-08-25 01:36:28Z

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notify-send --icon=/path/to/XX.png will only set the icon displayed in the dialog,

But for the tray icon, you need to refer to your KDE plasma theme, which is theme_dir/icons/notification.svgz

To find all your kde plasma themes installed, check out these two locations,

/usr/share/kde4/apps/desktoptheme/ (system location)

And ~/.kde4/share/apps/desktoptheme/

edited Aug 25 '12 at 1:36

answered Aug 24 '12 at 15:32

warl0ck
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	Could you improve your answer to make it useful for others ? Could you provide an example how to find KDE plasma theme to check pictures available there. Is there any standard which should be provided by all themes (like "notification") ? – Grzegorz Wierzowiecki Aug 24 '12 at 20:47
	@GrzegorzWierzowiecki yeah, that's a standard – warl0ck Aug 25 '12 at 1:37
	By "standard" I meant: What icons have to be provided by standard? I assume there must be some minimum set required. – Grzegorz Wierzowiecki Aug 25 '12 at 9:06

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