This article show how to send desktop notice using Python

simpleNotification

Install requirments

we need to install notify2 by pip

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# pip install notify2
Collecting notify2
  Downloading notify2-0.3.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: notify2
Successfully installed notify2-0.3.1

Coding

First we need to import notify2

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import notify2

Then need to initialise the d-bus connection. D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another.

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# initialise the d-bus connection
notify2.init("hello")

Next we need to create a Notification object. The simplest way is

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n = notify2.Notification(None)

else, you can add a icon to the notification.

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n = notify2.Notification(None, icon = "/home/wenshi/Pictures/me.jpg")

next, set the urgency level for the notification.

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n.set_urgency(notify2.URGENCY_NORMAL)

the other available options are

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notify2.URGENCY_LOW
notify2.URGENCY_NORMAL
notify2.URGENCY_CRITICAL

next, you can decide how long will the notification will display. use set_timeout to set the time in milliseconds.

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n.set_timeout(5000)

next, file the title and message body of the notification

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n.update("hello title", "hello messages")

notification will be shown on screen by show method.

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n.show()

Try it.

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import notify2
 
# initialise the d-bus connection
notify2.init("hello")
 
# create Notification object
n = notify2.Notification(None, icon = "/path/to/your/image")
 
# set urgency level
n.set_urgency(notify2.URGENCY_NORMAL)
 
# set timeout for a notification
n.set_timeout(5000)
 
# update notification data for Notification object
n.update("hello title", "hello messages")

# show notification on screen
n.show()

and it will show up in your screen simpleNotification