How to send KDE5 desktop notification from a bash script?

Question

I've tried a number of options, none of them worked:

notify-send 'text'
kdialog --passivepopup 'text' 5
qdbus org.kde.knotify /Notify event "event" 'app' "(" ")" 'title' 'text' 'pixmap' '' 5 0

Update: first two options should work, in my case the problem is a KDE bug with autohiding panel: KDE5 popup notifications not shown if panel is autohidden

score 21 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 20 '16 at 13:49

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At least first two options should work, I just have a problem with notifications in KDE in general: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-runtime/+bug/1547752

notify-send 'text'
kdialog --passivepopup 'text' 5

answered Feb 20 '16 at 13:49

int_ua

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Very helpful re. kdialog! I couldn't get notify-send's `urgency=critical` to work! – DK Bose May 27 '20 at 14:38

score 18 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 07 '17 at 03:32

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On my install of Kubuntu 15.10 and KDE neon, notify-send command was not available until I installed the libnotify-bin package.

After installing libnotify-bin, notify-send works fine:

sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin

edited Jun 07 '17 at 03:32

mertyildiran

answered Feb 04 '16 at 09:43

Andrew Davison

Thanks for the info, maybe I deleted some package or disabled some service, but in my case it just returns exit status 0 and I don't see any notifications. – int_ua Feb 05 '16 at 05:15
Perhaps check if libnotify4 is also installed? This was already present on my system but may have been a dependency from some other package. – Andrew Davison Feb 05 '16 at 10:02
Installed, the latest version `0.7.6-2svn1` – int_ua Feb 05 '16 at 23:17
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@DavidFoerster This is clearly an attempt to answer the question. – Seth Feb 06 '16 at 17:50
Looks like none of notification popups work at all on my main installation. I'll recheck on a default installation. – int_ua Feb 20 '16 at 01:52
Filed this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-runtime/+bug/1547752 Can you please verify that kdialog option works for you? – int_ua Feb 20 '16 at 02:25

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 25 '17 at 23:31

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first 'notify-send' did not work for me. But when I enabled 'notifications' widget (/icon or whatever) in Tray, it worked.

Try enabling the Tray notifications applet.

answered Apr 25 '17 at 23:31

mockingjay

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 16 '19 at 14:55

2

In my case: I was in Do not disturb mode and had forgotten about it.

answered Oct 16 '19 at 14:55

Hugo

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