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Asked: 2024-04-12 00:20:28 +0800 CST

Is there some standard notification system allowing to include links?

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There is notify-send --app-name="app name" "summary" "body body body https://askubuntu.com/questions/ask" but it shows pop up that does not allow even copying text.

And forget about ability to have working link to website or filesystem location.

Is there any standard way to do this? Or would I need to implement own GUI for that?

lsb_release -a shows

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal

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    @mook765 has reported this as working for them on 22.04.4 / Plasma, and @Rinzwind has reported this as working on Cinnamon and Budgie.

    Looking at the oldest Desktop Notifications Specification I could find (Version 0.3), on the Markup section, the following is reported:

    Body text may contain markup. The markup is XML-based, and consists of a small subset of HTML along with a few additional tags.

    The following tags should be supported by the notification server. Though it is optional, it is recommended. Notification servers that do not support these tags should filter them out.
    <b> ... </b> Bold
    <i> ... </i> Italic
    <u> ... </u> Underline
    <a href="..."> ... </a> Hyperlink

    So you may try:

    notify-send --app-name="app name" "summary" 'body body body <a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/ask">Ask</a>'

    However, on 22.04 / GNOME + notify-send 0.7.9, this kinda works out of the box for me (without the need of any tag, this is what happens if I run notify-send --app-name="app name" "summary" "body body body https://askubuntu.com/questions/ask" in the terminal):

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    user@[REDACTED] ~ % lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
Release:    22.04
Codename:   jammy
user@[REDACTED] ~ % notify-send -v
notify-send 0.7.9

    So, if the first method doesn't work for you for some reason, you can still try and update (at the very least this will work on GNOME).

    I'm not sure where in the stack something has changed over time that has enabled this.

    The first method doesn't work for links on my end (the other tags are still correctly processed), but this might be due to this "automatic parser" that has been introduced sitting in between the invocation of notify-send and the spec-following parser.

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