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notify-send to other user on the same system

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Mar 15, 202616013 views
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Is it possible to use notify-send to send messages to other users on the system? preferably to a specified user, but system wide would work aswell. Ubuntu/Debian with libnotify installed

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Fix for: notify-send to other user on the same system

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If you have the other users password you can do . somedude must have an X-session started. Edit: Found this script for use with cron:

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