[howto] code a popup

[Rava]

The howto is in reply #1 and #2. aka post #2 and #3 of this thread.

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Some weeks ago I found in a thread the code how the popup message is coded in Port, like the NetworkManager Applet "Connection established" one, and I did copy the code and played a bit with it.

But now that I want to incorporate the popup message into a script, silly me neither finds the thread (searched for "popup message remove" - since it was about how to remove the popup message that came on every boot) nor the locally saved code.

I know some of you know how to code such popup.

[ncmprhnsbl]

if you're talking about using a notification (daemon), that most of the 003-DE modules have (eg. xfce4-notifyd) :
at it's simplist:

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notify-send "a message"

for some more options:

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notify-send --help

[Rava]

notify-send "a message"

Indeed, that was it. Thanks.

Without the -t parameter set to 0 or at least 1000 nothing is to be seen, at least on an 8 core machine.

Sadly, not even man notify-send explains what the valid TYPE of

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--category=TYPE

are.

I search online for tutorials on notify-send.

Added in 4 minutes 34 seconds:
http://vaskovsky.net/notify-send/linux.html gives some tips.

e.g.

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notify-send -i info -t 0 "Encoding" "finished"

or

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notify-send -i info -t 0 "Downloading" "finished"

are both useful when its a long taking encoding or downloading session and even when away for a minute you want to see the notification, therefore -t 0 aka display until user clicks it away.

Though in both cases "finished" might not be "successfully finished" - e.g. server downtime while downloading.

But that can be handled via examining $? of e.g. ffmpeg or wget.

[Kulle]

Hi Rava,
notify-send -i info ....
The option "-i info" creates a icon (letter i on blue circle)
Are other icons possible? Which?
Thanks

[Rava]

The option "-i info" creates a icon (letter i on blue circle)
Are other icons possible? Which?

Its in the link I put in above…

http://vaskovsky.net/notify-send/linux.html gives some tips.

:

-i ICON, --icon=ICON: specifies an icon filename or stock icon to display, for example, info, important or error. Default: no icon.
[…]
-a, --app-name=APP_NAME: specifies the application name for the icon.

[Rava]

But that can be handled via examining $? of e.g. ffmpeg or wget.

like with a one-liner:

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ffmpeg [whatever];if [ $? -eq 0 ];then notify-send -i info -t 0 "Encoding" "successfully finished";else notify-send -i info -t 0 "Encoding" "ended with error";fi

You can test it what it does in case of an error or in case of success like so: (true for success or zero return value, false for error or non zero return value)

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true;if [ $? -eq 0 ];then notify-send -i info -t 0 "Encoding" "successfully finished";else notify-send -i info -t 0 "Encoding" "ended with error";fi
false;if [ $? -eq 0 ];then notify-send -i info -t 0 "Encoding" "successfully finished";else notify-send -i info -t 0 "Encoding" "ended with error";fi