Name
notify-user - A wrapper for Debians notify-send program
Synopsis
notify-user (user|--all|--help) [...]
Description
This script is a wrapper for notify-send to allow to notify users as root and/or from a script. It solves the issue that notify-send requires a valid value of DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS which is only available in the graphical session of the user.
Options
The first argument defines who receives the notification. --all will sends it to logged in users. Alternatively, a user name or a space separated list of user names can be provided.
--help displays a short help.
All further arguments will be passed to notify-send.
See also
Compatibility
The script was tested on:
- Ubuntu 16.04
- Ubuntu 17.04
- Ubuntu 17.10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Fedora 26
Author
Copyright 2017 ETH Zurich, D-INFK ISG, Manuel Mästinger