strange issue with notify-send

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 05:13:39AM -0500, 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?).

Bash does history expansion inside double quotes.  Did you try escaping
the `!', something like "World\!".

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

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