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I've added the (f)cronjob */1 * * * * DISPLAY=:0 notify-send testing to display a notification every minute, but it doesn't work; why not? (Using i3.)
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#!/bin/bash export DISPLAY=:0 state=$(upower -i $(upower -e | grep BAT) | grep --color=never -E "state" ) stat=${state:25:32} batperct=$(upower -i $(upower -e | grep '/battery') | grep -E "percentage:...
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I'm working on a bash script which requires root privileges, but which I'd like to give the ability to notify a non-root user of certain alerts via notify-send in GNOME (or any other desktop shell ...
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I want to make some notification to user every day at the same time: any_hour:50 And I wrote to crontab -e: 50 * * * * DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/notify-send -i /home/nazar/Pictures/icons/...
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I am trying to get procmail to work with libnotify (notify-send). My .procmailrc has a couple of recipes, which just essentially filter mails into different folders.. nothing fancy. Most of my ...
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I have a simple Python script here: #! /usr/bin/python import os os.system('notify-send Hello "This is a message"') When I, as a normal user, run the script in terminal as ./notification.py, a ...
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I would like to execute a script every 30 min after booting into the system. I know you can use cron, but I don't plan to use this feature often therefore I'd like to try it with systemd. So far I ...
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I'm using Ubuntu, but I have i3 as my window manager instead of a desktop environment. When my battery reaches 0%, the computer will just abruptly shut down, no warning or anything. Is there a ...
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Using the command line, I'd like show a notification on every running X display. ( and running console ) Something like: notify-send-all 'Warning' 'Nuclear launch in 5 minutes, please evacuate' Is ...
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Maybe this is answered somewhere else, but I didn't see it. I am running Ubuntu 14.04. When I SSH into my machine, for example: ssh <user>@<machineip> notify-send "Hello" I don't see ...
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I am toying around with notify-send and cron (on an Arch machine) and I can't figure out a way to combine them: I tried the solution given here and here, but neither worked. How can I use them? EDIT:...
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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 * * ...
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I'm trying to use a cron job to see when the battery gets lower than a given threshold, and then to send a battery critical notification. However, when I make the cron job execute a script every ...
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I was making a battery notifier script for my raspberry pi3. The script is executing when I do /usr/bin/python /home/pi/Documents/shutdown.py and showing the popup notifications.  However the service ...
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I've automated a daily restart for Firefox (edited by running crontab -e) and forgot to take into account whether the program would launch with administrator privileges. killall -s SIGTERM firefox; ...
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