Ubuntu – Notify-send and terminal command

command linenotificationnotify-osdnotify-send

Let's use sudo apt-get install linux as an example.

Here is the notify send command: notify-send -i terminal Bash "execution complete"

How could I substitute 'bash' with the entire sudo command? Where the command appears in bold as the title as "execution complete" displays below it as a message. This would be used as a means of notification. Once a command finishes a notification appears displaying the message.

Others have used ";alert" to utilize notify-send.
notify-send -i terminal Bash "execution complete" is saved as an alias as 'alert,' I'd like to add to this alias for the sake of convenience.

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notify-send -i terminal "<font size=16 color=blue><b><i>'bash -c ls'</b></i></font>"  "execution complete"

change what is in the single quotes with the command you wish, feel free to change the size and color to what you wish.

If you need assistance, post your code and more detailed information on what you wish to change

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Ubuntu – How to force a new Notification in notify-osd to show up without waiting for the earlier one to exit

There is a patch for this bug at - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnotify/+bug/257135?comments=all

@izx has made a ppa version for the patch so installation is now easy (thank you izx!)- How do I use 'notify-send' to immediately replace an existing notification?

To install, open a terminal and:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:izx/askubuntu
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin

Now you should have installed a patched version of notify-send that can now replace and print id numbers, so you can use just one notification box for your shell script. The program now has -p and -r options, or the long syntax being --print-id and --replace-id

I wrote up a script based on your original that will make use of this, the starting and stopping notifications display until the stopped and started display, and it reuses the same notification box, if you have installed the patched version, make an file called config.txt and put the number 0 inside, then put that file in the same folder as your lampp.sh file.

#!/bin/sh

SERVICE='proftpd'

if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep $SERVICE > /dev/null

then
notify-send -t 0 -p -r `cat config.txt` -i /opt/lampp/htdocs/xampp/img/logo-small.gif "Stopping XAMPP ..." >config.txt && gksudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop && notify-send -r `cat config.txt` -t 5000 -i /opt/lampp/htdocs/xampp/img/logo-small.gif "XAMPP Stoped."  
else
notify-send -t 0 -p -r `cat config.txt` -i /opt/lampp/htdocs/xampp/img/logo-small.gif "Starting XAMPP ..." >config.txt && gksudo /opt/lampp/lampp start && notify-send -r `cat config.txt` -t 5000 -i /opt/lampp/htdocs/xampp/img/logo-small.gif "XAMPP Started."

fi

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Ubuntu – Notify-send doesn’t work from crontab

Commands need to reference their location. So notify-send needs to be /usr/bin/notify-send

All commands need to have their full path.

Use the whereis notify-send command to see where your commands "live"

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