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kaqqao

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Registered: 2015-11-01

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How to use xfce4-notifyd gauges?

I've read that xfce4-notifyd has implemented Canonical's extension allowing for progress bar/gauge style notification long ago, and it is obviously true as xfce4-volumed is using it. But, is this feature in any way accessible from notify-send?
If not, is there an example how to use it from Python or some other language?

ToZ

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Re: How to use xfce4-notifyd gauges?

I don't believe that notify-send supports this directly. Both xfce4-volumed and xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin use a libnotify wrapper to perform this function.

However, a little while ago, I came across a notify-send replacement (bash script) that does exactly this. You can replicate the volume gauge update via:

RID=$(notify-send "Volume" -p -i audio-volume-medium -h int:value:75)
notify-send "Volume" -r $RID -i audio-volume-high -h int:value:100

Naturally, you'll need to programmatically set the icon and value levels as required.

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kaqqao

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Registered: 2015-11-01

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Re: How to use xfce4-notifyd gauges?

Nice tip! Thanks!