Is it possible to permanently show notifications on my screen?












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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 and deactivates the notification 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
    5 hours ago










  • @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
    5 hours ago












  • 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
    4 hours ago
















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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 and deactivates the notification 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?






scripts notification 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
    5 hours ago










  • @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
    5 hours ago












  • 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
    4 hours ago














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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 and deactivates the notification 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?






scripts notification 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 and deactivates the notification 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?






scripts notification notify-send




scripts notification 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
    5 hours ago










  • @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
    5 hours ago












  • 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
    4 hours ago














  • 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
    5 hours ago










  • @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
    5 hours ago












  • 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
    4 hours ago








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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
5 hours ago




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
5 hours ago












@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
5 hours ago






@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
5 hours ago














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
4 hours ago




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
4 hours ago










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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 



    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.



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      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 



        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 



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






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