strange issue with notify-send

[Ed Greshko]

On 09/11/13 18:13, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a strange issue with notify-send (using either window-manager:
> openbox or pekwm). So, what happens is that the pop-up (on the
> top right of the screen) appears to fall off the edge of the screen (on
> the right) with occasionally the rightmost part showing on the top left
> of the screen.
>
> As an example, consider the following:
>
> notify-send "Hello World! for he's a jolly good fellow who says hello
> world to all the world"
>
> the following is what happens on my 1920x1080 resolution laptop -- there
> is a popup and I see the following on the right side of my screen: I
> see upto "Hello World! for he's a jolly good fellow" (with only half
> the "w" displayed) and on the next line, I get "world to all the
> world". Clearly, the line goes beyond the workspace and eventually
> wraps around. On the other hand, I get notify-send "Hello" all right
> without any issues (because I guess the number of characters is too
> small to make a difference?).
>
> Anyone have any suggestions as to what is wrong? Or what I can look at
> to fix?
>
> I am using libnotify 0.7.5-5.fc19 on a completely up-to-date F19.
>
> Many thanks and best wishes,
> Ranjan
>

FWIW, in KDE the notification displays as a pop-up in the systray and there is obviously a line length limit and no automatic wrapping.  When the limit is reached the line ends in an ellipsis.

One way to get around it in a script would be....

#!/bin/bash
notify-send "This is a message
which will have multiple lines
and on KDE will do a
center justify"


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