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Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
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For those who don't like notify-send exhibiting its title ("notify-send") on LXQT

Posted 02-24-2023 at 06:03 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 02-24-2023 at 06:04 PM by the dsc
(Or anywhere using lxqt-notificationd, like in otherwise pure Openbox, which happens to be my case)

The "proper" way would be to have it always explicitly setting something else with "-a," but apparently one can emulate the title-less implementation of other notification daemons with an wrap-around script like this:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

if [[ ! "${@}" =~ "-a " ]] ; then

/usr/bin/notify-send -a ""
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Silly volume control scripts for openbox that probably won't work for everyone

Posted 03-20-2016 at 10:03 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 03-20-2016 at 10:22 PM by the dsc
Code:
#!/bin/bash

# volume changer+notifier, using notify-send, and tested only with xfce4-notifyd
# the syntax is the same of the "end" of what you'd use in plain amixer, see "$1"
# Ex.: 5%-, 5%+, 30, 60%

com=(`amixer set "Master" $1`)

vol1=${com[20]} 

# and here's why it won't work for everybody. The output of amixer includes
# things like soundcard features, which are array elements I'm just
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