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Using notify-send with multiple lines in body

Hey all,

I'm trying to setup a hotkey in KDE that will popup a notification with the current playlist I have running in an xmms2 server.

I currently have some hotkeys such as the following actions, which work fine:

Code:

xmms2 prev; notify-send "Currently Playing" "`xmms2 current`"

xmms2 next; notify-send "Currently Playing" "`xmms2 current`"

That works fine. However, if I want to popup the current playlist, I would want to do something like the following:

Code:

notify-send "Current Playlist" "`xmms2 list`"

But the playlist has newline characters, which apparently notify-send doesn't like...so I've been looking for a way to clear out the newline characters - and ideally replace them with something notify-send can display as newlines (e.g., HTML with <br> tags?).

I've tried using sed to do this, but I don't know enough about it. From what I can tell, the following has no effect on the output (nor do any variations I have tried thus far):

Code:

xmms2 list | sed '{s/\n/<br>/g}'

I've searched around online, but there are far too many examples of what I don't want to do that are drowning out what I do want to do. I'm pretty sure I've even asked something very similar myself, but can't find where that was.

Anyone have any recommendations?

I think xmms2 has configuration options to modify the output of the list command, maybe it has an html/xml option

I've never seen any problem when dealing with notify-send in this regard.

Can you test something simple like this and see if it works?

Code:

$ notify-send foo "bar

moo

cow"

Quote:

Originally Posted by i92guboj (Post 3892655)

I've never seen any problem when dealing with notify-send in this regard.

Can you test something simple like this and see if it works?

Code:

$ notify-send foo "bar

moo

cow"

That does work on the command line but might not do so well in a script.

It depends on which program provides the notifications!
Which notification daemon does your system use?

Code:

dpkg -l | grep -i notfication

should answer that question.

FWIW, I use dunst and something like

Code:

notify-send Title "$(mpc)"

works as expected, and so does e.g.

Code:

notify-send Title "bla\nbla\nbla"

Summary required

OMG, I had tried using \n already but with no luck. Since you posted using the same I tried again and it failed... then I tried with Title and it worked. That is called {summary} in the man page and otherwise doesn't seem to be required but it did make \n work.

notify-send "bla\nbla" puts bla\nbla on the screen

notify-send Title "bla\nbla" puts on the screen:
Title
bla
bla

OS = Linux Mint 20.2

Thank you Ondoho