libnotify

Ruby and Ubuntu's Notify-OSD

I'm using ruby-libnotify in a Ruby GTK app, and it works great to create a bubble popup in Ubuntu. I'm on Hardy, and it all works great. Then I had others try the app on Jaunty, and instead of a bubble popup with the new Notify-OSD system, as I expected, the notification turned into a dialog box. I looked into it, and found the Ubuntu...

Bash commands not executed when through cron job - PHP

Hi there! I have a cron job running a PHP script every five minutes; the PHP script executes two bash commands at the end of the script. I know the script is running due to a log file it appends to. When I run the PHP script manually via the Ubuntu Gnome Terminal both bash commands execute flawlessly; however when the PHP script is tr...

Stack multiple libnotify popups

Does anybody know how i can get multiple popups sent via notify-send to appear on screen at once. With: $ notify-send 'Message One' 'Body One' & notify-send 'Message Two' 'Body Two' & notify-send 'Message Three' 'Body Three' Each one waits for the previous popup in the queue to expire before being shown, i'm trying to get all three t...

What icons are available to use when displaying a notification with libnotify?

I'm using the libnotify library to display a notification in Ubuntu. I would ideally like to display a battery of some sort (since my app is a battery meter). The types of icons I can use are: a URI specifying the icon file name (e.g. file://path/to/my-icon.png) a 'stock' icon name. One that would succeed in a call to gtk_icontheme_...