Python and notification-daemon examples?

[forger]

Hi, I probably need to read a lot about notification-daemon and dbus, but I searched in google and couldn't find an example to show how to send a notification popup using python through the notification-daemon. Can someone share an example here?

Also, the python application I'm helping to code will be run as root, what is the best way to send a popup notification through notification-daemon but for another user that is logged in and uses a desktop manager, say gnome? An example here would also be welcome :)

[forger]

Ok, so I found pynotify

#!/usr/bin/env python
try:
import gtk, pygtk, os, os.path, pynotify
pygtk.require('2.0')
except:
print "Error: need python-notify, python-gtk2 and gtk"

if __name__ == '__main__':
if not pynotify.init("Timekpr notification"):
sys.exit(1)

n = pynotify.Notification("Moo title", "test")
#n = pynotify.Notification("Moo title", "test", "file:///path/to/icon.png")
n.set_urgency(pynotify.URGENCY_CRITICAL)
n.set_timeout(10000) # 10 seconds
n.set_category("device")

#Call an icon
helper = gtk.Button()
icon = helper.render_icon(gtk.STOCK_DIALOG_WARNING, gtk.ICON_SIZE_DIALOG)
n.set_icon_from_pixbuf(icon)

if not n.show():
print "Failed to send notification"
sys.exit(1)

What's the best way to send this to a specific user while running in as root in background? :confused:

[evrkusd]

did you ever find a way to do this or examples of this working?

[unutbu]

To run a notifier script as root, but have the notification show up on a user's display, see http://gnome-hacks.org/hacks.html?id=82.

I've found to get this script to work on Ubuntu, I needed to change



pids=`pgrep -u $user gnome-session`


to



pids=$(pgrep -u $user gnome-panel)

[days_of_ruin]

Here are some more examples. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDevelopmentGuidelines#Layout%20cases%2 0(with%20examples%20in%20C,%20Python%20and%20C#)

Btw I would put your main code in a function called main and
then below "if __name__ == "__main__":"
just put main().

[NoBugs!]

There seems to be a bug in this notification system,
no matter what timeout you set in n.set_timeout(number), it always shows the notification for 11 seconds.

[kostkon]

There seems to be a bug in this notification system,
no matter what timeout you set in n.set_timeout(number), it always shows the notification for 11 seconds.
Actually, it isn't a bug, it's a feature. Quoting from the wiki page (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDevelopmentGuidelines)

Notify OSD does not use the expire_timeout parameter.