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Possible to display custom non-obstructive on-screen notification bubble in Ubuntu? Similar to mute icon bubble

My thinkpad does not have a dedicated touchpad key so I created a script to toggle touchpad and assigned it to F1. It works as expected. Now I am trying to display touchpad icon bubble whenever script ... user avatar Aditya T

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notification from c++ privilege daemon process to all users

I have a c++ privileged daemon process which is running as root. Want to send notification to all the desktop users programmatically using libnotify-dev package.How can it be done in cleaner way. user avatar vkg

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notify-send not working

I am working on Ubuntu 18.04 and trying to use notify-send via terminal, but nothing happens. It gets stuck for some time and that's it. Can someone please suggest a solution? In syslog, it is showing ... user avatar Aman Turate

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Wall broadcast message in terminal to desktop popup message?

I'll receive a wall broadcast message like this in my terminal: Broadcast message from rick@dell (somewhere) (Tue Jun 23 19:21:32 2020): ... user avatar WinEunuuchs2Unix

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Pidgin missing libnotify plugin on ubuntu 20.04

I installed pidgin when I upgraded to ubuntu 20.04, and realized immediately that notifications were not working properly and I could not close the buddy list without also closing the chat window. ... user avatar metichi

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Can't install libnotify-dev due to version blocked dependencies

Step #1 ... sudo apt-get -y update; sudo apt-get -y upgrade; sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade; sudo apt-get -y clean; sudo apt-get -y autoremove; ... results in ... Hit:1 user avatar Martin Bramwell

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Python script to send and click link sent as notification

I'm writing a python script for linux that sends a notification to the notification bubble using libnotify. My issue is I'm sending a link as the notification and I want to be able to click that link ... user avatar Atia

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notify-send not showing notification when playing video

I have a script (which is called on keyboard button press) that instantly shows a notification with notify-send and then does some other things. It works perfectly, except in the following cases it ... user avatar jonasstaehle

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How to use notify-send with C++?

I'm a C++ beginner coder. I'm trying to understand how to send notifications using libnotify-bin library. I've read some guys saying don't to use system calls. Any clue? user avatar aledruetta

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Any way to catch the notifications so another program can read them?

I know you can see notifications in the terminal using dbus-monitor "interface='org.freedesktop.Notifications'" | grep --line-buffered "string", but is there any easy way to catch the notifications ... user avatar PJkeeh

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How to get UNITY native notification for gogle chrome?

I have tried the below link Activate Chrome native notifications But there is no such files and folders in above said answers when I installed the google Chrome recently to version 38 How can I get ... user avatar Amit Rane

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Run rkhunter regularly on a desktop system

I want to get a warning on my desktop when rkhunter finds something odd on my system. I whitelisted some files and dirs that seem ok in /etc/rkhunter.conf so I get no warnings anymore. Now I want to ... user avatar rubo77

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Fullscreen libnotify?

Is there any way to make libnotify popups appear in fullscreen apps? If not, is there somewhere where I could make a feature request? user avatar pocketpc

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notify-send not working on 14.04, but volume and brightness notifications do

I have browsed around here and googled for over an hour, but are no closer to a solution, so here goes. lets start by killing /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/notify-osd. I then do notify-send "foo" and it ... user avatar user284445

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notify-send can't display popups

I have a problem with notify-send. It's clearly visible that it tries to show the popups, but they only come up about 20 pixels at the bottom of the screen. Then when it times out I see the whole ... user avatar Zitrax

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