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Martin Hope
John Dale
Asked: 2020-12-24 10:28:28 +0800 CST
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It works fine, but the notify-send is put "backwards" before other notifications, here's: an image:

picture

It feels like my notification is in a different "group" or something...

The notification should come AFTER the mullvad notification.

service script:

[Unit]
Description=Turns off microphone at startup
#After=multi-user.target
After=syslog.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/opt/bin/microphone-status
User=tom
RemainAfterExit=yes
Environment="DISPLAY=:0.0" "XAUTHORITY=/home/tom/.Xauthority"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

The script:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10
#/usr/bin/update-notifier
/usr/bin/notify-send -u normal 'Why does it appear on top?'
#function check_state () {
#   toggle_toggle=$(/usr/bin/amixer get Capture | grep -c "\[off\]")
#   echo toggle+percent
#   toggle_percent=$(/usr/bin/amixer get Capture | grep -c "\[0%\]")
#   echo toggle_percent
#   let toggle_result=$((toggle_toggle+toggle_percent))
#   echo $((toggle_result))
#}
#check_state
#/usr/bin/notify-send -u normal $toggle_result # IF 4  = TURNED OFF, IF !=4 TURNED ON

#if [ $(/usr/bin/pgrep pavucontrol) > 0 ] ; then  # Check if pavucontrol has processID = active
#echo "found pavucontrol"
#   if [ $((toggle_result)) != 4 ] ; then # Turn off microphone once
#       toggle off
#           /usr/bin/killall -9 xfce4-notifyd
#           /usr/bin/notify-send 'Microphone was left turned on' 'It was automatically disabled.'
#       /usr/bin/amixer set Capture toggle
#           /usr/bin/amixer set Capture 0
#           /usr/bin/amixer set Capture 0%
#   fi
#fi

exit 0

Another picture - the notification starts at a really weird place - at half at my taskbar

Why is my service's notification at such a weird place?

bash
Martin Hope
John Dale
Asked: 2020-12-23 11:59:28 +0800 CST
  • 0
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/notify-send 'lol'
#function check_state () {
    #toggle_toggle=$(/usr/bin/amixer get Capture | grep -c "\[off\]")
    #echo toggle+percent
    #toggle_percent=$(/usr/bin/amixer get Capture | grep -c "\[0%\]")
    #echo toggle_percent
    #let toggle_result=$((toggle_toggle+toggle_percent))
    #echo $((toggle_result))
#}
#check_state 
#echo $toggle_result # IF 4  = TURNED OFF, IF !=4 TURNED ON

#if [ $((toggle_result)) != 4 ] ; then
        # toggle off
#        /usr/bin/killall -9 xfce4-notifyd
#        /usr/bin/notify-send 'Microphone was left turned on' 'It was automatically disabled.'
#   /usr/bin/amixer set Capture toggle
#        /usr/bin/amixer set Capture 0
#        /usr/bin/amixer set Capture 0%
#fi

exit 0

Service file

[Unit]
Description=Warns if microphone is turned on at startup
After=sound.target
After=display-manager.service
[Service]
ExecStart=/opt/bin/microphone-status
RemainAfterExit=yes
Environment="DISPLAY=:0.0" "XAUTHORITY=/home/tom/.Xauthority"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Note that when i run systemctl start microphone-status.service, it works. On boot up, doesn't. I dont understand the reason

It succeded:

sudo systemctl status microphone-status.service 
[sudo] password for tom: 
● microphone-status.service - Warns if microphone is turned on at startup
     Loaded: loaded (/opt/bin/microphone-status.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (exited) since Tue 2020-12-22 20:53:08 CET; 9min ago
    Process: 759 ExecStart=/opt/bin/microphone-status (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 759 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Dec 22 20:53:08 UNKNOWN-PC systemd[1]: Started Warns if microphone is turned on at startup.

EDIT1:

[Unit]
Description=Turns off microphone at startup
#After=multi-user.target
After=syslog.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/opt/bin/microphone-status
User=tom
RemainAfterExit=yes
Environment="DISPLAY=:0.0" "XAUTHORITY=/home/tom/.Xauthority"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
bash systemd xubuntu notify-send
Martin Hope
John Dale
Asked: 2020-12-02 09:56:51 +0800 CST
  • 1

I have a custom service in /etc/systemd/system/microphone_disable_startup.service

[Unit]
Description=Disable microphone on startup
After=alsa-restore.service

[Service]
ExecStart=/opt/bin/check_mic_startup

The script that is executed is check_mic_startup located in /opt/bin

#!/bin/bash

# DEBUG: touch /home/GeorgeMP/Desktop/testfile_works

i_toggle=$(amixer get Capture toggle | grep -c "\[on\]")
if [ $i_toggle = 2 ] ; then
        amixer -q set Capture toggle
fi
amixer -q set Capture 0%
echo Microphone turned OFF
exit 0

As you can see I have tried debugging the service with the touch command, and it works flawlessly, even when used by the service. The problem is with the more complex commands in the script.

Doing a systemctl status on my custom service, i can check that the service succeded without errors.

microphone_disable_startup.service - Disable microphone on startup
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/microphone_disable_startup.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2020-12-01 17:36:39 CET; 8min ago
    Process: 610 ExecStart=/opt/bin/check_mic_startup (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 610 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Dec 01 17:36:39 GeorgeMP systemd[1]: Started Disable microphone on startup.
Dec 01 17:36:39 GeorgeMP systemd[1]: microphone_disable_startup.service: Succeeded.

However, after restarting/shutting down even though it executed successfully, the command didn't execute or it happened without any effect because

amixer get Capture
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
  Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
  Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
  Limits: Capture 0 - 63
  Front Left: Capture 63 [100%] [30.00dB] [on]
  Front Right: Capture 63 [100%] [30.00dB] [on]
They are 100% and turned [on].

They should be 0% and [off]

If i execute /opt/bin/check_mic_startup from the terminal, it works flawlessly. Even so if i do systemctl start microphone_disable_startup.service. It just doesn't work when used by my custom service microphone_disable_startup.service What's the issue?

EDIT 1:

I change my script to this to contain the /opt/bin directory too

#!/bin/bash

# DEBUG: touch /home/GeorgeMP/Desktop/testfile_works

# USE THESE IF NEEDED SOMEWHERE ELSE
    #DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus"
    #DISPLAY=":0.0"
export PATH="$PATH:/opt/bin"
i_toggle=$(/usr/bin/amixer get Capture toggle | grep -c "\[on\]")
if [ $i_toggle = 2 ] ; then
    /usr/bin/amixer -q set Capture toggle
fi
/usr/bin/amixer -q set Capture 0%
echo Microphone turned OFF
env > /home/GeorgeMP/Desktop/environment
exit 0

And i check and every command can be accessed by the script in the new environment.

By the way, the environment file that was created on my Desktop is

LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
PWD=/
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
INVOCATION_ID=549485b12a4149bb889e55d42711e923
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
SHLVL=1
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
JOURNAL_STREAM=9:26568
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin:/opt/bin
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
_=/usr/bin/env

So it contains the /opt/bin path. It still doesn't work... but when i run the script in the terminal it works...

scripts bash services systemd xubuntu
Martin Hope
John Dale
Asked: 2020-11-24 08:16:50 +0800 CST
  • 3

Code:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 2
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=$DBUS_SESSION
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u)
DISPLAY=:0.0
notify-send "Connecting..."

Also tried:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
sleep 2
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus"
DISPLAY=":0"
/usr/bin/notify-send "Connecting..."
exit 0

As you can see i have tried setting everything, but it's still not working.

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

bash network-manager xubuntu notify-send 20.04