I need xfce4-notifyd help

[ToddAndMargo]

On 7/21/22 02:08, killermoehre at gmx.net wrote:
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>> Am 21.07.2022 um 07:23 schrieb ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo at zoho.com>:
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>> On 7/20/22 18:47, Douglas R. Reno wrote:
>>> On 7/20/22 20:43, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Would someone write me a quick command line
>>>> to pop up something from xfce4-notifyd?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>> -T
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>>> I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I've got this in Beyond Linux From Scratch's page for xfce4-notifyd:
>>> notify-send -i info Information "Hi ${USER}, This is a Test"
>>> - Douglas R. Reno
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>> Yes thank you.
>>
>> I am now looking for how to call xfce4-notifyd
>> from a program with a system call.
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> This really depends on your programming language of choice. In the end, xfce4-notifyd is just a "frontend" for the XDG Desktop Notification Spec [1]. A popular library implementing this spec is libnotify [2], which has bindings in many languages. Of course, you could send raw DBUS messages as well, also possible with many programming languages.
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> So, in the end it depends on your work environment on what to use.
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> [1] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/notification-spec/notification-spec-latest.html
> [2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libnotify


Thank you!