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Questions tagged [notifications]

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How can I get an alert when my battery is about to die in Linux Mint?

This happens to me more than I'd like to admit, but sometimes I don't notice the power getting low since it only shows up in my status bar, then the computer just quits. I'd like a big alert that warns me before this happens. Is there any way for it…
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How to disable event sounds in Plasma 5?

I wander how to disable event sounds in kde5 Plasma (the one that is heard when scrolling the volume in systray for example). I use Plasma in Opensuse 13.2 but this is KDE specific methinks. UPDATE These are the available settings (after…
user32012
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Show a notification across all running X displays

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 there a program that will do this? If not, can this…
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How to have normal notifications over full screen applications in Gnome 3?

In my workflow I use applications in fullscreen mode most of the time. The only serious drawnback I have in that is the way Gnome 3 handles desktop notifications, I can't get any normal notification, only when I'm switching from one application to…
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Is there a desktop notification that stays shown until I click it?

notify-send keeps showing notification for a few second. its option -t specifies the timeout in milliseconds at which to expire the notification. Can I send a notification which will last until I tell it to end, e.g. by clicking it?
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Notifications and notification daemon not working on window manager

Notifications doesn't work on Linux standalone window managers (Openbox, Awesome WM and alike). I tried to install notification-daemon and dunst, but sending with notify-send "something" does not make any window to pop-up. I tried to run…
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Banish a popup error message

I am connected through VNC to a CentOS 6.4 machine at my workplace. Every five minutes a box pops up that says: Authentication is required to set the network proxy used for downloading packages An application is attempting to perform an action that…
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Call notify-send from an udev rule

I use Linux Mint 13 MATE, and I'm trying to set up notifications when I plug/unplug devices. First of all, I found udev-notify package, but unfortunately it almost doesn't work for me: it works for very little time (1-2 minutes), and then, if I…
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IMAP mail notifier for window manager/task bar?

I am searching for a small new-email-notifier for IMAP mailboxes that displays it's status in the icon-bar (how do you call it?) of a window manager. Basically some biff/xbiff like tool ported to 21th century technology. ;) I am using awesomewm,…
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Cron job still running when deleted

On a server I inherited, there is a cron job running hourly on one of the Debian servers. It sends an email out to a non-existent email, but bounces back to my account since I listed myself as the root email in /etc/aliases. The cron job has been…
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Find out the owner of a DBus service name

I can't find a way to find what program implements the org.freedesktop.Notifications service. Is it possible to ask DBus to tell me what program provides it? The reason for asking this question is quite banal: I found a new desktop notifications…
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How to get notified of incoming calls on mobile phone on laptop?

The reason for this is that my phone will be in vibrate mode, and I almost always forget to switch back to "General" profile after I reach my room from class. Hence I miss a lot of phone calls when the phone is not in my pocket. When I reach home,…
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Wrong notification system in KDE Plasma

I have installed KDE Plasma on my arch Linux but the notifications seems like XFCE4 (i also have XFCE4 installed on my Arch). The notification configurations says: Currently the notifications are provided by Xfce Notify Daemon instead of…
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How can I use cron to display messages on the screen via notify-send

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: I have set the DISPLAY in the crontab and it…
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Clearing/modifying previous libnotify notifications?

I have written a script which generates notifications like this: notify-send -i audio-card "Transferring audio playback to speakers." \ "Audio playback has been transferred to the analog output speaker system." Is there any way to clear or to…
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