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Using notify-send with cron
I use i3 on Ubuntu 18.04. My way to solve this is:
* * * * * XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u) notify-send Hey "this is dog!"
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Arch linux: Notifications not working in i3wm - dunst: CRITICAL: Cannot open X11 display
Instead of installing dunst as a service, add it to your i3 config:
Edit ~/.config/i3/config and add:
exec --no-startup-id dunst
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How do notifications work on linux?
What is a notification server, and what does it serve?
In general terminology, a server is a program that clients connect to in some way (whether over network or over local IPC mechanisms). The ...
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`notification-daemon` completely absent although libnotify installed
The notification daemon is available in its own package, notification-daemon.
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What are the differences/(dis)advantages of zenity vs notify-send?
Functionality comparison
zenity --notification is equivalent to notify-send for the most simple cases.
For example, these two commands are equivalent:
$ zenity --notification --text=Title
$ notify-...
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Arch linux: Notifications not working in i3wm - dunst: CRITICAL: Cannot open X11 display
Because of the Warning: That basically just means that systemd is trying to start the dunst notification daemon (small program that runs in your user desktop session, listening to libnotify based ...
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Arch linux: Notifications not working in i3wm - dunst: CRITICAL: Cannot open X11 display
from: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dunst#Installation
Installation Install the dunst package.
An example configuration file is included at /usr/share/dunst/dunstrc.
Copy this file to ~/....
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notify-send/notification-daemon: disable tray icon
For what it's worth, I had the opposite request. I wanted the list of notifications to show up. Turns out the default in lxde (or maybe ubuntu) is notify-osd, which doesn't show this icon or the ...
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notify-send not working under ssh
IMO, may be you could use:
ssh user@host 'export DISPLAY=:0 && notify-send "test message"'
This of course assuming ":0" is the real value of the DISPLAY variable, if it is the only user ...
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Using notify-send with cron
In my case, the issue was with using root user with notify-send. I realized this when I saw that sudo notify-send didn't work on the terminal but just notify-send (i.e. with current user) did.
So ...
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Using notify-send with cron
Use printenv for print environment variables from your normal terminal. And then paste all environment variables in starting of crontab file.
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