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Rafael Muynarsk
Asked: 2019-01-05 17:20:43 +0800 CST

Is it possible to permanently show notifications on my screen?

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With the command notify-send, it's possible to show a notification on screen for a small amount of time. But I'd like to have a specific notification on my screen for an undetermined amount of time. I'm creating a script that is initiated and terminated by the user, for me it'd be useful to have a command that activates the notification and then deactivates it after my script is finished. The pseudocode would be something like this:

#!/bin/bash

activatenotification "my text"

# my script commands

deactivatenotification

Is it possible to do? Is there such a command line tool or can I do something like that using notify-send?

notification scripts notify-send

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    If your issue is with the short duration of the notify-send alert, then you can set the urgency level of an alert to 'critical'. This would produce a persistent notification which you'll have to dismiss manually.

    Use the following format 

    notify-send -u critical "Header" "Body text"
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