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 wrote a script using Pushover. However, I did not find any way to get notifications from the iPhone displayed on my desktop. (Preferably using a unified notification system, for example using notify-send). I know that OSX has very good support for this, so I guess it's not impossible, but I did not find any working solution. Of course, the best solution would be to get full sync, including removing a notification from both places if it has been read in one place. A lot of this is already solved, of course. E-mail, Facebook, etc. notifications gets "synced" out-of-the-box basically. I'm ok with having to write scripts, including having to write customized filters, etc. If there's no full solutions, I'm satisfied with getting the building blocks only, especially something that sends the iOS notifications to my desktop somehow. EDIT: I added the tag Bluetooth because I learned that OSX does this using Bluetooth LE. Looking up Bluetooth LE support still did not help me, though.

I have a bash script that opens a window with notify-send. I would like to close that window when the script ends, but I can find nothing to kill. The question is a duplicate of https://askubuntu.com/questions/639754/is-it-possible-to-cancel-or-clear-a-notification-created-by-using-notify-send , but none of the answers work for me. The accepted answer says to kill a process called notify-osd, but I don’t have anything like that. It is noticeable that that question is ten years' old. My script is like notify-send -u critical -i ~/.icons/my-icon.png "$titletext" "$helptext" helppid=$! … kill $helppid (The urgency setting is critical so that the Help window stays open until explicitly dismissed.) The problem is that $! does not return a value. ps -ef | grep -i notify shows nothing connected to my script. I have found a work-around, using the print-id feature of notify-send (described in https://askubuntu.com/a/161852 ): print-id=$(notify-send -p -u critical -i ~/.icons/my-icon.png "$titletext" "$helptext") notify-send -r $print-id -u low ~/.icons/my-icon.png "$titletext" Finished Can anyone describe a better way to dismiss the help dialogue? I have read recommendations for yad, and wonder whether to install and evaluate it.

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'" The problems is that the notifications get stacked e.g. Is there a way to prevent the notifications from stacking and just display the newest notification?

I have Suse Tumbleweed, and sometimes I work in a KDE Plasma session on X, and in this case [notify-send](https://man.archlinux.org/man/notify-send.1.en) works as intended. Othertimes I use icewm or compiz as my window managers, and in both cases notify-send does not work as intended, that is, no popup windows is shown (but no error condition is raised). How can I have working notifications in every case? --- I understand that my question is a bit sketchy, if you have any question I'll be happy to add further info.

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 00 13 * * * /home/nazar/Documents/scripts/lunch_break_job.sh # JOB_ID_2 50 * * * * /home/nazar/Documents/scripts/pc_break.sh # JOB_ID_1 * * * * * /home/nazar/Documents/scripts/cron_job_test.sh # JOB_ID Here is script for /home/nazar/Documents/scripts/cron_job_test.sh: #!/bin/bash export DISPLAY=0.0 export XAUTHORITY=/home/matrix/.Xauthority if [ -r "$HOME/.dbus/Xdbus" ]; then . "$HOME/.dbus/Xdbus" fi /usr/bin/notify-send -i "hello" This snippet of function: if [ -r "$HOME/.dbus/Xdbus" ]; then . "$HOME/.dbus/Xdbus" fi Checks DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and uses it. [According to this answer](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/111188/using-notify-send-with-cron) I executed script, and now my Dbus is saved to $HOME/.dbus/Xdbus: nazar@desktop ~ $ cat $HOME/.dbus/Xdbus DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-flm7sXd0I4,guid=df48c9c8d751d2785c5b31875661ebae export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS All should work. I couldn't find what is missed. Because notification doesn't work now. From terminal it works fine: ***How to solve this issue?*** **SOLUTION:** Now my crontab looks as follows: DISPLAY=":0.0" XAUTHORITY="/home/nazar/.Xauthority" XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000" 00 13 * * * /home/nazar/Documents/scripts/lunch_break_job.sh # JOB_ID_2 50 * * * * /home/nazar/Documents/scripts/pc_break.sh # JOB_ID_1 # * * * * * /home/nazar/Documents/scripts/cron_job_test.sh # JOB_ID and cron_job_test.sh looks now: #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/notify-send -i /home/nazar/Pictures/icons/Mail.png "hello" "It is just cron test message" pc_break.sh:

:bash
#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/notify-send -i /home/nazar/Pictures/icons/download_manager.png "Break:" "Make a break for 10 min"

lunch_break_job.sh:

:bash
#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/notify-send -i /home/nazar/Pictures/icons/Apple.png "Lunch: " "Please, take a lunch!"

Keep in mind that scripts should be executable.

# Info Fedora 40, Gnome 46, Wayland

systemctl --version
systemd 255 (255.6-1.fc40)

notify-send --version
notify-send 0.8.3

# Task I want to execute the following task after waking up from Suspend/sleep, it shows the duration of suspend in a notify-send desktop notification.

mapfile -t UnixDate < <(journalctl -o short-iso --since "24 hours ago" | grep systemd-sleep | tail -n 2 | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -L 1 date +%s -d)
if (("${#UnixDate[@]}" == 2)); then
	Duration="$(python -c "import datetime; time=(${UnixDate} - ${UnixDate})/3600; print(str(datetime.timedelta(hours=time)))")"
	notify-send \
		--app-name="Suspend" \
		--icon=face-smile \
		--urgency=normal \
		--expire-time=3000 \
		--hint int:transient:1 \
		"Slept" "${Duration}"
fi

# What I tried? - Refer: - man systemd-suspend.service - [Running scripts before and after suspend with systemd – Just another Linux geek](https://blog.christophersmart.com/2016/05/11/running-scripts-before-and-after-suspend-with-systemd/)

$ pwd
/usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep

$ ls -la
total 4.0K
755 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 574 2024-05-19 09:24 Suspend_notification.sh

$\cat Suspend_notification.sh  
#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [ "${1}" == "post" ]; then
        journalctl -o short-iso --since "24 hours ago" | grep systemd-sleep | tail -n 2
        mapfile -t UnixDate < <(journalctl -o short-iso --since "24 hours ago" | grep systemd-sleep | tail -n 2 | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -L 1 date +%s -d)
        if (("${#UnixDate[@]}" == 2)); then
                Duration="$(python -c "import datetime; time=(${UnixDate} - ${UnixDate})/3600; print(str(datetime.timedelta(hours=time)))")"
                notify-send \
                        --app-name="Suspend" \
                        --icon=face-smile \
                        --urgency=critical \
                        "Slept" "${Duration}"
        fi
fi

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 .

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 notification with success, warning or error, depending on the outcome of the action. - When i run the script manually (not sudo), i get a desktop notification. - When i run the notification command in Terminal (not sudo), i get a desktop notification. - When i set up the /etc/systemd/system service, i do not get desktop notification, and i get an error in journalctl (the script otherwise runs fine): > Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY Example notification within the script: notify-send -a 'Successful!' -u low -i vcs-normal systemd service: [Unit] Description=Test Script Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Service] Type=simple Nice=10 IOSchedulingClass=2 IOSchedulingPriority=7 ExecStart=/home/username/.local/bin/test.sh User=username Group=users My search indicates that the root-run systemd service doesn't have access to the user's desktop to put a notification. I saw an attempt around it , which was to add this to the service file: [Service] User=username Environment=DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/%U/bus In my case, it stopped the error in the journal, but it did not give me the desktop notification. I'm aware i can run systemd services as the user with systemd --user start test service files placed in ~/.config/systemd/user, and the notifications will work (i have managed to achieve that). But in this instance i would like to run this script as root. Thanks :)

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, and I have backup script running. I would like to receive notification when the script completes. How can I send notification as root, when I am logged in as regular user?

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 months ago, all was well, but after a system update (in May?) my notifications kept their dark background but started using dark text as well for the notification body. Hence, all I can read is the title. I looked at my current colour scheme in ~/.local/share/color-schemes/*.colors, setting all text (Foreground*=255,0,0) to red, but the notification fonts did not change. This document provides some specifications and mentions that ForegroundInactive should be used for the body text. However, this may be in a section of the colour scheme that is currently lacking. Also, the document is about three years old. I'm using KDE Plasma v.5.25.5 on Gentoo Linux. How can I change the colour of the (body) text in my notifications?

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-send I heard that notify-send is dead, so I am trying to get an alternative command to send notifications in Pop! OS Is it also possible to install notify-send in Pop! OS?

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 NO i do not know what amass says if there is a difference.

#!/bin/sh 

amass track -d beesy.me | grep "No differences discovered"

	if [[$? -eq 1]];  
		discord_notify "Changes in beesy.me domain!"

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 1> >(cat) 2> >(ifne notify-send "Error") The issue i am having is, I want to view the stderr (in this case b d) as notify-send body. I have tried: foo 1> >(cat) 2> >(ifne notify-send "Error" "$(cat)") foo 1> >(cat) 2> >(ifne notify-send "Error" "$(