Notify OSD

How do I sent a notification to notify-osd?

Asked by Ruben Verweij

I searched on the internet on how to use the new notify-osd notification system in a C/GTK+ app, but I found nothing useful.
I just want to send a notification with an icon, title and description.
Am I supposed to do something via dbus? I am really stuck here.

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Ruben Verweij (ruben-verweij) said : 		#1

I already found the solution, I'm posting it on my blog for people who are interested.
See http://ubublogger.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/using-ubuntu-jauntys-new-notification-system-notify-osd/ for the source code.

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David Barth (dbarth) said : 		#2

You can also simply use notify-send from the command line. It is part of the libnotify-bin package.
A few applications are using this method, exec'ing notify-send with appropriate parameters to send notifications without the need to setup a dbus link and talk the notification protocol.