On 2010-07-23, He Wen wrote:
> Hi, Every one!
>
> I try to use notify-send to send a message to my desktop when a new mail
> arrives, but i find notify-send dosen't work with procmail:
>
> In my procmailrc, I have:
>
> # notification
> :0 ic:
> | play /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/drip.ogg; notify-send -i
> 'evolution' "New Mail Arrives"
>
> Only the sound could be heard, but no notifcation popped out. I can't figure
> out
> what's wrong with it. Could anyone help me? Thank you ^^
I'm not familiar with notify-send, but I imagine that it's an X
application and needs to know the identity of the display on which
to display itself. The process that runs procmail is not associated
with any display, so notify-send doesn't know what display to use.
You might try executing
echo $DISPLAY
at the shell prompt of some X terminal, then setting DISPLAY to that
value in the command that invokes notify-send, something like this.
# notification
:0 ic:
| play /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/drip.ogg; DISPLAY=:0.0
notify-send -i 'evolution' "New Mail Arrives"
Unfortunately I don't have a way to test that at the moment.
HTH,
Gary
