How to send KDE5 desktop notification from a bash script?

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I've tried a number of options, none of them worked:

notify-send 'text'
kdialog --passivepopup 'text' 5
qdbus org.kde.knotify /Notify event "event" 'app' "(" ")" 'title' 'text' 'pixmap' '' 5 0

Update: first two options should work, in my case the problem is a KDE bug with autohiding panel: KDE5 popup notifications not shown if panel is autohidden

int_ua · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-20 13:49:05Z

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At least first two options should work, I just have a problem with notifications in KDE in general: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-runtime/+bug/1547752

notify-send 'text'
kdialog --passivepopup 'text' 5

answered Feb 20, 2016 at 13:49

int_ua

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Very helpful re. kdialog! I couldn't get notify-send's urgency=critical to work!
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mertyildiran · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-07 03:32:09Z

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On my install of Kubuntu 15.10 and KDE neon, notify-send command was not available until I installed the libnotify-bin package.

After installing libnotify-bin, notify-send works fine:

sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin

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answered Feb 4, 2016 at 9:43

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Thanks for the info, maybe I deleted some package or disabled some service, but in my case it just returns exit status 0 and I don't see any notifications.
– int_ua
Feb 5, 2016 at 5:15
Perhaps check if libnotify4 is also installed? This was already present on my system but may have been a dependency from some other package.
– Andrew Davison
Feb 5, 2016 at 10:02
Installed, the latest version 0.7.6-2svn1
– int_ua
Feb 5, 2016 at 23:17
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@DavidFoerster This is clearly an attempt to answer the question.
– Seth
Feb 6, 2016 at 17:50
Looks like none of notification popups work at all on my main installation. I'll recheck on a default installation.
– int_ua
Feb 20, 2016 at 1:52

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mockingjay · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-25 23:31:44Z

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first 'notify-send' did not work for me. But when I enabled 'notifications' widget (/icon or whatever) in Tray, it worked.

Try enabling the Tray notifications applet.

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Hugo · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-16 14:55:08Z

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In my case: I was in Do not disturb mode and had forgotten about it.

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