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I have notify-send and all the requirments installed, but when I run a simple command

notify-send "Test" "Test Message"

nothing happens, but if I run the same command through sudo, it works.

System processes can send notifications with no problem, so I see a popup when I join a new wireless LAN, for example.

What group do I need to be a member of in order to send notifications?

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Check the owner of the notify-osd process:

ps -e -o fname,user | grep notify-o

On my system, it is the current user. If it is not, try killing the process and restart it as current user.

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  • No, notify-osd is running as me. – Stuart Grimshaw Feb 01 '12 at 13:48
  • Are any of the following questions related? http://askubuntu.com/questions/16173/notify-osd-stops-working-after-totem-has-been-running-for-a-while http://askubuntu.com/questions/52960/notify-send-does-nothing-yet-libnotify-is-installed – krlmlr Feb 01 '12 at 15:27
  • No, I have all the deps installed and AFAIK, I have nothing inhibiting the screensaver, it does indeed start after a period of inactivity. The fact I can run it as root just makes it feel like a problem with permissions. – Stuart Grimshaw Feb 01 '12 at 16:24
  • Well, other people have problems running it as `root`... http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1727148 – krlmlr Feb 02 '12 at 08:32
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For me the problem was that there are too notifications acumulated. if you try notification-properties > prewiew. It tells you. You should restart notification-daemon:

sudo killall notification-daemon
/usr/lib/notification-daemon/notification-daemon
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