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With the command notify-send, it's possible to show a notification on screen for a small amount of time. But I'd like to have a specific notification on my screen for an undetermined amount of time. I'm creating a script that is initiated and terminated by the user, for me it'd be useful to have a command that activates the notification and then deactivates it after my script is finished. The pseudocode would be something like this:



#!/bin/bash

activatenotification "my text"

# my script commands

deactivatenotification


Is it possible to do? Is there such a command line tool or can I do something like that using notify-send?










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    notify-send is built in such way that the notifications do have to exit. What you can use is zenity to show popups. These can stay on screen indefinitely. They're small GUI windows. So you can either close or kill them. Does that sound like something that you're looking for ?
    – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
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  • @SergiyKolodyazhnyy I'd like to keep using the computer while I see the notification on my screen. I think that zenity doesn't allow me to navigate through other windows while it's open, does it?
    – Rafael Muynarsk
    yesterday












  • Zenity dialog windows are just like any other application windows. You can still put them in the background or minimize them and keep doing other things.
    – Byte Commander
    yesterday
















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With the command notify-send, it's possible to show a notification on screen for a small amount of time. But I'd like to have a specific notification on my screen for an undetermined amount of time. I'm creating a script that is initiated and terminated by the user, for me it'd be useful to have a command that activates the notification and then deactivates it after my script is finished. The pseudocode would be something like this:



#!/bin/bash

activatenotification "my text"

# my script commands

deactivatenotification


Is it possible to do? Is there such a command line tool or can I do something like that using notify-send?










share|improve this question




















  • 1




    notify-send is built in such way that the notifications do have to exit. What you can use is zenity to show popups. These can stay on screen indefinitely. They're small GUI windows. So you can either close or kill them. Does that sound like something that you're looking for ?
    – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
    yesterday










  • @SergiyKolodyazhnyy I'd like to keep using the computer while I see the notification on my screen. I think that zenity doesn't allow me to navigate through other windows while it's open, does it?
    – Rafael Muynarsk
    yesterday












  • Zenity dialog windows are just like any other application windows. You can still put them in the background or minimize them and keep doing other things.
    – Byte Commander
    yesterday














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With the command notify-send, it's possible to show a notification on screen for a small amount of time. But I'd like to have a specific notification on my screen for an undetermined amount of time. I'm creating a script that is initiated and terminated by the user, for me it'd be useful to have a command that activates the notification and then deactivates it after my script is finished. The pseudocode would be something like this:



#!/bin/bash

activatenotification "my text"

# my script commands

deactivatenotification


Is it possible to do? Is there such a command line tool or can I do something like that using notify-send?










share|improve this question















With the command notify-send, it's possible to show a notification on screen for a small amount of time. But I'd like to have a specific notification on my screen for an undetermined amount of time. I'm creating a script that is initiated and terminated by the user, for me it'd be useful to have a command that activates the notification and then deactivates it after my script is finished. The pseudocode would be something like this:



#!/bin/bash

activatenotification "my text"

# my script commands

deactivatenotification


Is it possible to do? Is there such a command line tool or can I do something like that using notify-send?







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    notify-send is built in such way that the notifications do have to exit. What you can use is zenity to show popups. These can stay on screen indefinitely. They're small GUI windows. So you can either close or kill them. Does that sound like something that you're looking for ?
    – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
    yesterday










  • @SergiyKolodyazhnyy I'd like to keep using the computer while I see the notification on my screen. I think that zenity doesn't allow me to navigate through other windows while it's open, does it?
    – Rafael Muynarsk
    yesterday












  • Zenity dialog windows are just like any other application windows. You can still put them in the background or minimize them and keep doing other things.
    – Byte Commander
    yesterday














  • 1




    notify-send is built in such way that the notifications do have to exit. What you can use is zenity to show popups. These can stay on screen indefinitely. They're small GUI windows. So you can either close or kill them. Does that sound like something that you're looking for ?
    – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
    yesterday










  • @SergiyKolodyazhnyy I'd like to keep using the computer while I see the notification on my screen. I think that zenity doesn't allow me to navigate through other windows while it's open, does it?
    – Rafael Muynarsk
    yesterday












  • Zenity dialog windows are just like any other application windows. You can still put them in the background or minimize them and keep doing other things.
    – Byte Commander
    yesterday








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notify-send is built in such way that the notifications do have to exit. What you can use is zenity to show popups. These can stay on screen indefinitely. They're small GUI windows. So you can either close or kill them. Does that sound like something that you're looking for ?
– Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
yesterday




notify-send is built in such way that the notifications do have to exit. What you can use is zenity to show popups. These can stay on screen indefinitely. They're small GUI windows. So you can either close or kill them. Does that sound like something that you're looking for ?
– Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
yesterday












@SergiyKolodyazhnyy I'd like to keep using the computer while I see the notification on my screen. I think that zenity doesn't allow me to navigate through other windows while it's open, does it?
– Rafael Muynarsk
yesterday






@SergiyKolodyazhnyy I'd like to keep using the computer while I see the notification on my screen. I think that zenity doesn't allow me to navigate through other windows while it's open, does it?
– Rafael Muynarsk
yesterday














Zenity dialog windows are just like any other application windows. You can still put them in the background or minimize them and keep doing other things.
– Byte Commander
yesterday




Zenity dialog windows are just like any other application windows. You can still put them in the background or minimize them and keep doing other things.
– Byte Commander
yesterday










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If your issue is with the short duration of the notify-send alert, then you can set the urgency level of an alert to 'critical'. This would produce a persistent notification which you'll have to dismiss manually.



Use the following format



notify-send -u critical "Header" "Body text"





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    If your issue is with the short duration of the notify-send alert, then you can set the urgency level of an alert to 'critical'. This would produce a persistent notification which you'll have to dismiss manually.



    Use the following format



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      If your issue is with the short duration of the notify-send alert, then you can set the urgency level of an alert to 'critical'. This would produce a persistent notification which you'll have to dismiss manually.



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        If your issue is with the short duration of the notify-send alert, then you can set the urgency level of an alert to 'critical'. This would produce a persistent notification which you'll have to dismiss manually.



        Use the following format



        notify-send -u critical "Header" "Body text"





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        If your issue is with the short duration of the notify-send alert, then you can set the urgency level of an alert to 'critical'. This would produce a persistent notification which you'll have to dismiss manually.



        Use the following format



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