If you're talking about notification-daemon, there is a command-line utility you could just exec, if present (maybe not as elegant, but also not as invasive or fragile). As an example, the following is the script I put in /etc/acpi/actions to make the volume button turn up the volume on my laptop under Gentoo Linux:
export DISPLAY=:0 VOLUME=`/usr/bin/amixer -c 0 set Master 5%+ | grep Playback | grep "Front Left:" | cut -b24-` eval "export $(egrep -z DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS /proc/$(pgrep -u tim openbox)/environ)" NSOUT=`sudo -u tim /usr/bin/notify-send -t 750 --icon /usr/share/icons/gnome-human/32x32/status/audio-volume-high.png "Volume $VOLUME"` which generates a nice notification with what the volume has been changed to. What you need to do is simpler. The relevant thing to call is /usr/bin/notify-send - *but *you will need $DISPLAY and $DBUS_SESSION_ADDRESS set correctly. But unlike my situation, where the script runs as another user and I have to fish around for all that stuff, all you need to do is call /usr/bin/notify-send "Whatever you want to tell the user" Much simpler. -Tim On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 7:26 AM Hector Espert <hectorespertpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everybody. > > After the first proposal to integrate the native linux notification system > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/1948, I started to work in the > notifications module to expose an API. > > > My idea is to allow to extend the notifications system and integrate it > with the native notifications system via a future module or a external > plugin without break the current behavior. > > > I created a Draft PR with the first draft of the notifications API to > receive your feedback about that. > https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/2142 > > > Regards > -- http://timboudreau.com
