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Title:
notify-send (alert) not popping-up GUI bubble messages
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/2016/11/10/notify-send-_alert_-not-popping-up-GUI-bubble-messages
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November 10, 2016
Edited: June 12, 2020
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Aliases are automatically created in ~/.bashrc
When you look in ~/.bashrc you see these lines:
# Add an "alert" alias for long running commands. Use like so:
# sleep 10; alert
alias alert='notify-send --urgency=low -i "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)" "$(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]\s*alert$//'\'')"'
The problem with the code is the --urgency=low flag. Sometimes the message pops up, some times it doesn’t. After all it is low priority right?
To make the message always appear set the urgency to critical. Rather than changing the system default I created a new line for my own purposes:
# Add a "redalert" alias to pop-up on GUI desktop screens. Use like so:
# redalert "Weather update: It's raining Red States"
alias redalert='notify-send --urgency=critical -i "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)" "$(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]\s*alert$//'\'')"'
Now you can use:
redalert "Weather Update: It's raining Red States"
and it works perfectly!