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A program to send desktop notifications.

A program to send desktop notifications.

With notify-send you can sends desktop notifications to the user via a notification daemon from the command line. These notifications can be used to inform the user about an event or display some form of informa‐tion without getting in the user’s way.1

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How do I add a custom image to notify-send?

In notify-send I know that -i can be used to add a stock image to the notification, but how can I add my own custom image? I have gone into usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32 where notify-send pulls from, but it won't show any image at all. Is it possible…
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Who is sending to notify-send?

After reinstalling some drivers, I am receiving a lot of annoying empty messages to my notify-send every 30 sec - 5 min. # dbus-monitor "interface='org.freedesktop.Notifications'" outputs method call time=1512991561.538291 sender=:1.924 ->…
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How can I dismiss a notify-send notification with a keyboard shortcut?

How can I dismiss one of these notifications with a keyboard shortcut? I am calling it with the notify-send command, although I'd like to to work on all notifications.
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Low urgency alerts from notify-send never appear

The man page for notify-send says that the urgency level can be low, normal, or critical: -u, --urgency=LEVEL Specifies the urgency level (low, normal, critical). However, while normal and critical alerts appear (critical ones need to be…
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notify-send works for a little while after logging in then stops working

Notify-send (also zenity --notification --text "") stops working after logging in. Not sure how long it takes to fail but it starts failing silently in that no notification is put up. Sorry, adding more details: I'm on Ubuntu 21.10. As for stops…
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