Part 1 of Easy GUI Creation On Linux
Hey guys..
In this thread, I will show , how to Creating Visually Appealing Notifications on Liunux using notify--send.
I assume that the user reading this thread has basics of shell scripting..
I am working on Ubuntu, this doesn't mean that it will only work on Ubuntu, it should work on any UNIX like OS.
We will be using notify-send
Requirements
ibnotify-bin
Installation on Ubuntu
Usage
Sample Out Put
Uses
Creating notifications , for example when any of your friend come Online on MSN / Yahoo, this can be used to notify the same..
or even notify the user when a download is completed ..
you can extend this tool to create many awesome things.
you can pipe the output of any script to this and use it to create visually appealing Notifications..
for more info and all available options..
I will try to cover many more Tools , which will be very helpful to create Basic Linux Apps easily in the near future.
Hey guys..
In this thread, I will show , how to Creating Visually Appealing Notifications on Liunux using notify--send.
I assume that the user reading this thread has basics of shell scripting..
I am working on Ubuntu, this doesn't mean that it will only work on Ubuntu, it should work on any UNIX like OS.
- Creating Visually Appealing Notifications
We will be using notify-send
Requirements
ibnotify-bin
Installation on Ubuntu
Code:
apt-get install libnotify-bin
PHP:
notify-send "Wjunction.com Rocks ?";
Sample Out Put
Uses
Creating notifications , for example when any of your friend come Online on MSN / Yahoo, this can be used to notify the same..
or even notify the user when a download is completed ..
PHP:
#!/bin/bash
wget http://www.google.com/images/srpr/nav_logo13.png
notify-send "Download Completed ";
you can pipe the output of any script to this and use it to create visually appealing Notifications..
for more info and all available options..
PHP:
man notify-send