What I am trying to do is, I have a few texts in a file & when I tap a key combination like ctrl+Q, the text should appear as a notification on my Ubuntu Desktop. What is the command to assign this keyboard shortcut?
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O_O wat? I think you will need to develop a software to accomplish something like that. – Lucio Sep 18 '14 at 05:41
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How big would the text be? only a few lines or a text block? – Jacob Vlijm Sep 18 '14 at 06:05
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Only a very few lines. – Anandu M Das Sep 18 '14 at 07:20
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would you use sections (lines) or the whole file at once? – Jacob Vlijm Sep 18 '14 at 07:22
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Just that line. I know how to write the script for that. But i want to execute that script using the keyboard shortcut. – Anandu M Das Sep 18 '14 at 07:27
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You can use the notify-send tool:
cd $HOME
touch foo
echo "foo\nbar\nbaz" > foo
notify-send "TEST" $(cat ~/foo)
it will create a notification like the one below:
Finally read How to add keyboard shortcuts? to enable Ctrl+Q for this notification (or better choose another combination as this one is already occupied - Thanks Jacob Vlijm).
Update:
All you have to do now is to create a small launcher (foo.sh):
#!/bin/bash
notify-send "TEST" $(cat ~/foo)
Change its permissions:
chmod 777 foo.sh
And assign to your new shortcut the full path of your launcher:
Sylvain Pineau
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I have a script to show the notification. But the script is in some other directory. So how can I set that to open with my assigned keyboard shortcut? – Anandu M Das Sep 18 '14 at 07:35
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@AnanduMDas I've updated my answer to detail how to create the shortcut – Sylvain Pineau Sep 18 '14 at 07:48
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