Questions tagged [notify-send]
For the questions about the notify-send command used to send desktop notifications
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How to get user desktop notifications from a sudo-run systemd service on Wayland?
I'm running KDE Plasma on Nobara (Wayland), a Fedora-based distro. I'm brand new to Wayland and Nobara/Fedora, and have very limited experience with systemd.
I have a bash script that sends a desktop ...
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notify-send: send notification from script running as root [duplicate]
In my desktop environment, I am using dunst as notification daemon, and I can send notification as:
notify-send "some message"
I have a terminal window open, where I am logged in as root, ...
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Where do I define the path for a log of notifications send
I saw this question -
https://askubuntu.com/questions/770218/how-can-i-log-all-notify-send-actions
And while it has a beautiful script I do not understand where to define the path as well as how to ...
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How can I change the text colour in a Plasma-desktop notification?
I am using Plasma-desktop notifications for all kinds of things, often from scripts using kdialog or notify-send. My Plasma desktop uses a dark background with a light foreground (text). Until a few ...
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sending discord notification if changes in bash output (will be put in a cron)
I need to recieve a discord notification if this command does not have the string "No differences discovered" in the last 2 lines of the output. Ive been at it for hours I dont get it! and ...
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notify-send with stderr in notification body if there is stderr
Suppose I have a command like:
foo() {
echo a
echo b >&2
echo c
echo d >&2
}
I use the following command to process stdout in terminal but send error via notify-send
foo ...
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How do I notify-send a long command?
I want to use notify-send to show a notification every n minutes to tell me the vpn status.
The command would be running in a popup terminal I have already set up, hidden from view until I need to ...
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What is the notify-send alternative command in Pop! OS
I use notify-send in Manjaro Linux to send notifications, as follows:
notify-send [OPTIONS] [Message Summary] [Message Body]
However, I moved to Pop! OS and I found that command not found: notify-...
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How to customise the appearance of notify-send?
I am running linux mint and use the notify-send command for various purposes, and of course also receive notifications from regular applications e.g. discord or MS Teams
When using Cinnamon DE, they ...
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Notify-send to login screen in Debian 11
I used this method to send a message which is triggered by udev to the login screen. Which was working on Debian 10 with Gnome.
On Debian 11 this is not working anymore. The user Debian-gdm which owns ...
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Elegant way for notification when power button pressed
I want to display a notification for user via notify-send when power button is pressed.
Power button has a special script attached which allows to shutdown only when specified amount of time has ...
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notify-send from fcrontab not displaying notification
Referenced these links with no success. Most of them seem to be ubuntu, gnome, and cron syntax specific.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/298608/notify-send-doesnt-work-from-crontab/346580#346580
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notify-send to display desktop notification from script running as different user
I have the following script:
#!/bin/sh
notificationMessage="Your session is going to expire soon"
if [ $# == 2 ]; then
notificationMessage="Your session is going to expire in $2 hour&...
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Problem with a spacer
I'm trying to send a notification through a notify-send
notify-send 'System' 'Dist files is already' $(du -h /var/cache/distfiles/ | tr -d '/var/cache/distfiles/')
But the spacer that I need cannot ...
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How to write notifications to a file?
I've been trying to automate git pulls with a Bash script. To make sure I don't miss the execution results of the script, and yo log these results somewhere for possible reviews if things go wrong, I'...
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Why am I having these issues in sxhkd?
First issue:
So, in my sxhkd config, I have these lines:
super + i; b
export b=$(acpi); notify-send -t 2000 $b
super + i; r
export r=$(free -h | awk '{print $6}' | sed 's/available//'); ...
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Bind smartd to user session
I want to see smartd notifications in DE (Gnome3). So I've configured smartd to execute custom script that uses notify-send to notify all logged users:
smartd.conf:
/dev/sda -m root -M test -M exec /...
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Desktop notifications sent by i3blocks don't show up if some window in full-screen mode
I am using i3 window manager on Ubuntu with i3blocks to display some important info in i3bar. I need a desktop notification when something requires my attention (for example, battery level) as well. ...
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Use 2>&1 to direct stdout/stderr for a single command only among many in a BASH script
My first post, please be kind :)
I'm writing my first ever BASH script, and using systemd to invoke it on a timer (my first systemd units too!). The script runs backups daily, and uses notify-send to ...
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notify-send not working in i3wm but is working in gmone3
I've been experimenting with i3 on fedora 30 (alongside the default gnome3) and I've run into a problem.
I can get notify-send to work in gnome but when I log in to i3 it doesn't do anything.
I've ...
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Setup notify-send click action
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 ...
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What are the differences/(dis)advantages of zenity vs notify-send?
There is both zenity and notify-send. (on Fedora/GNOME at least, both seems to be pre-installed.)
So considering I want to show notifications, what are the differences between these too ones?
Is ...
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how to send notifications to clients that connect to the same tmux session?
I have a python script running on a server (let's called box A) inside a tmux session. I ssh into box A from Box B and connect to this tmux session. My question is how do I send some kinds of ...
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Send a notification or alert when bash asks for input from user
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. There is an alias in my .bashrc which uses notify-send:
alias alert='notify-send --urgency=low -i "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)" "$(history|tail -...
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How to make dunst show repeated notifications of the same program as one single notification
here are my notifications and I would like each notification to replace the one before it
by the way I am using dunst for my notifications
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notify-send with crontab in i3
I am trying to create a cron job that sends a notification via notify-send.
I am currently trying this:
*/2 * * * * DISPLAY=:0 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/$(id -u)/bus /usr/bin/...
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Add notification to mpv through notify.send?
Is it possible to generate a brief notification every time mpv starts a playback? Maybe through notify-send?
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notify-osd not working after i3wm restart
Notifications won't work after I restart i3wm (with super + shift + r).
My ubuntu version is 16.04 and I installed the patched notify-osd which allows customizable notifications.
From syslog I ...
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How to allow running notify-send as another user with pkexec?
As continuation of this question (How can I send a notification with polkit 0.106?), I've discovered that I have to execute notify-send as the user who I want to send notification.
But, with my ...
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How can I send a notification with polkit 0.106?
I am developing a application to don't forget the pendrive.
This app must lock the shutdown if a pendrive is connected to the machine. As this form, if the user wants to shutdown the system while a ...
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Udev rule doesn't work, why? [duplicate]
My udev rule is not working. I've added information about the udev rule:
udev rule:
$ cat /lib/udev/rules.d/95-monitor.rules
KERNEL=="card0", SUBSYSTEM=="drm", RUN+="/bin/bash /home/koko/Desktop/...
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systemd service not executing the python script
I was making a battery notifier script for my raspberry pi3. The script is executing when I do
/usr/bin/python /home/pi/Documents/shutdown.py
and showing the popup notifications. However the ...
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Prevent "notify-send" from stacking
I have wrote this script, when the increase volume button is pressed to display desktop notifications with "notify-send".
when the button is pressed:
notify-send "Current volume 'pamixer --get-volume'...
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libotify / notify-send: body text is not printed if it contains '<' or '>'
I am on Linux Mint 18.1, MATE.
I am using the notify-send command to visualize the name of keys (such as <enter>), while sending them to the current window via a python script.For about two ...
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How can I execute notify-send from root? [duplicate]
I'm working on a bash script which requires root privileges, but which I'd like to give the ability to notify a non-root user of certain alerts via notify-send in GNOME (or any other desktop shell ...
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udev action to call notify-send not working [duplicate]
I have been trying to make a udev rule for a while, but without succes. For testing purposes, I have a file /etc/udev/rules.d/80-power.rules which contains
ACTION=="add", RUN+="/opt/eigen_scripts/...
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libnotify with bash and grep
I am trying to get libnotify (notify-send) to pop-up a notification once a certain character is found while I tail a log file.
Without grep it works fine ...
Here is my code:
tail -f /var/log/...
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notify-send - How to display full message when message is longer than one line?
Let's say I use notify-send with this long messages:
notify-send 'd: title, up/down: zoom, w: win_to_img, </>: rotate, *: orig, Enter/0: blah blah blah'
But it truncates the message, showing ...
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notify-send from root cron
On my system, notify-send requires 3 enviorment variables to run, which are kept in a file which is generated automatically on logon:
/home/anmol/.env_vars:
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/...
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Why can't I use `kill $!` with parameter expansion in Bash, when the most recent process is "notify-send"?
According to Bash: Special Parameters:
($!) Expands to the process ID of the job most recently placed into the background, whether executed as an asynchronous command or using the bg builtin
I ...
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What do a notify-send notification category, hint and version parameters mean?
The notify-send command manual says
Usage:
notify-send [OPTION...] <SUMMARY> [BODY] - create a notification
Help Options:
-?, --help Show help options
Application ...
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Is there any way to syncronize notifications between a Linux desktop and iOS?
I use notify-send and dunst for my notification system on my desktop.
After a research, I found out that there are a few commercial solutions for sending push notifications to iOS devices, and I even ...
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Notify-send doesn't work at Cinnamon
I am using Linux Mint 17.
I want to be informed every 50 min, at every hour for small break.
Here is cron job:
nazar@desktop ~ $ crontab -l
DISPLAY=:0.0
XAUTHORITY=/home/matrix/.Xauthority
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understand the options of 'notify-send'
I have gone through the man page for notify-send and I am not able to understand following two options
-u, --urgency=LEVEL Specifies the urgency level (low, normal, critical).
-h, --hint=TYPE:NAME:...
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Call notify-send from an udev rule
I use Linux Mint 13 MATE, and I'm trying to set up notifications when I plug/unplug devices.
First of all, I found udev-notify package, but unfortunately it almost doesn't work for me: it works for ...
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why isn't xargs parsing my input correctly?
I've been trying to write a shell script that will interface with cmus and then notify me of the track info using notify-send. Right now it is not working, mainly because xargs does not seem to pass 2 ...
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