How to script desktop notifications?

Israel israeldahl at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 01:44:18 UTC 2014


On 12/19/2014 08:14 AM, Jörn wrote:
> notify-send is perfectly okay for bash scripts.
>
> Jörn
>
> Am 19. Dezember 2014 01:36:52 MEZ, schrieb John Hupp
> <lubuntu at prpcompany.com>:
>
>     I see that xfce4-notifyd is installed.  Does that run by default? Is 
>     there ready-made provision for sending messages to that from a script?
>
>     (Several releases back, I had to install libnotify-bin and then use 
>     notify-send in a script to actually publish the notices, but maybe there 
>     is a better way now.)
>
>
> -- 
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> gesendet.
>
>
+1
You can also make interactive notification dialogs with zenity or
gxmessage, in case you want to make the user input something, or click
OK/Cancel, etc...
Happy scripting :)

-- 
Regards

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