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Re: Desktop notifications?

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On 11/17/2016 10:09 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> I have a backup script that runs once a day with root privileges. It's
> handled by systemd timer and service units. I would like to have a
> desktop notification text when the backup is ready.
>
> What I have tried so far: I don't use normal desktop, only i3 window
> manager. I installed notify-osd package and started its daemon as a
> normal user. Running a command "notify-send foo" shows "foo" text like I
> expected. But when "notify-send" runs as root no notification text
> appear anywhere.
>
> How can I get notifications working in plain window manager setup? And
> hopefully not only this backup script example but for other programs
> too, like Network Manager's notifications. I'm not really interested in
> work-arounds like "DISPLAY=:0 xmessage -timeout 5 foo".
I don't know whether this qualifies as a work around that you are not 
interested in, but I have found that this works.  From you script use 
the following:

    sudo -u <username> notify-send foo

Since the script is running with root privileges, sudo will not need a 
password to run the notify-send command as a lesser privileged user.  I 
haven't tried this from a script, but did do it from the keyboard.  I 
verified that notify-send would not send a notification to me when 
sudo'ed as root, and then used the above command.  It did indeed work.  
The <username> that you use is the username that you are normally logged 
in as.

-- 
73's de Mike, WB5VQX

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Desktop notifications? Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2016-11-17 17:10 +0100
  Re: Desktop notifications? Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2016-11-17 21:20 +0100
  Re: Desktop notifications? Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-11-18 09:10 +0100
    Re: Desktop notifications? Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2016-11-19 09:50 +0100

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