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Cronjob can't execute notify-send [duplicate]

I have the following file ~/.config/local_scripts/notifier.sh with this content: #!/bin/sh notify-send -t 10000 "Cronjob" "Test succeeded" This is in my crontab, if I execute ...
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Notify-send notifications appearing under window

I've written a shell script to ensure that my daughter doesn't play Minecraft on her Raspberry Pi for more than 60 minutes in a week :). Part of the script uses notify-send to pop up notifications ...
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Any way to send desktop notification that will prompt user to confirm yes-no?

I am on Fedora 27, and have a system-on delayed (45min delay) anacrondaily job that backs up my laptop drive on a regular basis. The anacron is because my system is not always on. The problem is that ...
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How do I make shell remember things?

So what this does (currently) is grab how many streamers are live. Let's say 2 of 5 are live, which works fine. What I'd like to achieve is for those 2 streamers that are live to be "remembered" in ...
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How to ring the system bell from command line?

I'm using some Bash scripts under Linux that require some time to complete; I'd like to add at the end of them a command to ring the system bell when those tasks are done, so I can be notified. What'...
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A screen virtual LED on linux

We have some LEDs on our machine to indicate the status of Caps Lock, Num Lock etc. Now I need a virtual LED in Linux to notify something. For example, I wrote a script to monitor a website. When ...
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Alert after long running shell script

When I have wait for slow commands (operations on large databases for example), I start doing something else and often don't notice for a long time that it has finished, wasting valuable time. I am ...
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How to clear balloon popup from bash

I am setting a notification with notify-send in a script. The only problem is that when the script is called several times, all the notifications are added to a notification stack and only called one ...
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How to write to KDE's OSD or notification from console?

How can I write, from a bash script, to KDE's OSD or notification area? I am using KDE 4.5, and basically what I want is my script to report some stuff when it is run. Since I run the script by a ...
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Pop-Up Notification when time reaches 4:00PM?

I was wondering if there was a way to display a notification or something from the command line at a certain time. Like when the clock strikes 4:00pm. It would be nice if it would display it using ...
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