Whenever something happen which require notification (connecting to a wireless network or low battery status) Ubuntu (unity) gives a nice floating message which (usually) vanishes after several seconds. Is there a way to produce my own floating notification?
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Have you checked out the ubuntu wiki yet?
There's a few examples here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDevelopmentGuidelines
More general info about it here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD
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notify-send "whatever you want to say :)"
You can put it in your scripts to notify you about almost anything happens in your system. To see more options like setting title, icons, time, etc...
man notify-send
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Caveat! If using the Unity desktop man notify-send is contradicted by Non-expiring notifications
For details see reference: https://askubuntu.com/a/189173/89468
The use of notify-send is desktop conditioned, depending on whether it is:
- Unity's notify-OSD or
- Gnome's notification-daemon
that displays the notification.
Quoting mhall119/devportal/notify-osd - Ubuntu Wiki:
notify-osd... takes the place of
notification-daemon, and its presentation of notification bubbles differs in several ways ...
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