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Given some simple notify-send command inside a bash script such as
notify-send "test"
How can I make a determinate window gain focus when the user clicks that notification? I thought playing around with the -a switch would do something, but I can't get it to work either on GNOME Shell and XFCE .
It seems notify-send can't do this. This Arch Linux thread provides more details as answer:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=172965
taken from the link above:
No, notify-send doesn't support the use of actions/buttons.
Maybe this link will be useful for you : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDesignGuidelines
it seems that the design guidelines don't recommend action buttons in notifications, rather recommend a popup window from the application if additional action is required/needed.
last but not least dunstify seems to support action buttons.
notify-send, so a solution explicitly showing how to do this (maybe I'll have time to write it later) pretty much settles this.
– Waldir Leoncio
Jan 15 at 8:08
