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ibes

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Registered: 2013-04-26

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[SOLVED] Actions in notifications with notify-send

Using notify-send, is there a way to associate a notification with some action (e.g. execution of a script) when clicking on it? Or is it possible to include a button within the notification? To better understand what I mean, please have a look the below image depicting a notification sent by Rhythmbox that contains some buttons.

Last edited by ibes (2013-11-16 08:00:58)

berbae

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Registered: 2007-02-12

Posts: 1,302

Re: [SOLVED] Actions in notifications with notify-send

Hello
Maybe this link will be useful for you : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDesignGuidelines

jjacky

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Registered: 2011-11-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Actions in notifications with notify-send

No, notify-send doesn't support the use of actions/buttons.

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progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,190

Re: [SOLVED] Actions in notifications with notify-send

You might be interested in "dunstify" which is a part of the dunst daemon, but is not installed with the AUR package. It is a more fleshed out interface for libnotify than notify-send.

dunstify -A yes,ACCEPT -A no,DECLINE "Call waiting"

https://github.com/knopwob/dunst

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ibes

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From: Austria

Registered: 2013-04-26

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] Actions in notifications with notify-send

Thank you all for your replies! I think I'll have a look at dunstify then.

C0rn3j

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Re: [SOLVED] Actions in notifications with notify-send

Using my necro-powers as this is still one of the top search engine results and I wasted too much time finding related info

notify-send does support actions and buttons now, see the SE thread that links here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/763538/435522

Last edited by C0rn3j (2024-02-15 14:04:09)