want to add my own "notification" messages

[SaintDanBert]

I want to add my own "notification" pop-up messages to Ubuntu Karmic.
These appear as small black rectangles in the top right corner of the screen for all sorts of things that happen on my laptop: battery level, network connections, sound volume, screen brightness, etc.

I want to (1) understand where and how these existing notifications happen, and (2) be able to configure my own for whatever reason comes along.

Cheers,
~~~ 0;-Dan

[zlatkart]

Hope this works in Karmic the same way and you meant this:

notify-send -i terminal Text1 "Text2"

[SaintDanBert]

I don't find any notify-send anything on my Karmic installation.
When I search for packages

user@host $ dpkg -l | grep notify

ii firefox-notify 1.5.4-1ubuntu1 integrate Firefox download messages with des
ii inotify-tools 3.13-1 command-line programs providing a simple int
ii libinotifytools0 3.13-1 utility wrapper around inotify
ii libnotify1 0.4.5-1ubuntu1 sends desktop notifications to a notificatio
ii notify-osd 0.9.24-0ubuntu1 daemon that displays passive pop-up notifica
ii notify-osd-icons 0.3 Notify-OSD icons
ii python-notify 0.1.1-2build2 Python bindings for libnotify
ii python-pyinotify 0.8.6-2ubuntu2 simple Linux inotify Python bindings
ii python-pyinotify-doc 0.8.6-2ubuntu2 simple Linux inotify Python bindings -- docu
user@host $


Once I get THIS working, it will help some, but I also need to know how to tap in with whatever else the sub-system already does. Some of my notices modify what already happens.

Cheers,
~~~ 0;-Dan

[freeball1]

You have to install libnotify-bin, it contains notify-send.

No idea, how to modify existing notifications, though.