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dunstify: command not found

by Deepika

“dunstify” is a command line tool for creating desktop notifications on Linux systems using the Dunst notification daemon. Dunst is a lightweight and customizable notification daemon for Linux, and dunstify is a command line interface for creating and manipulating notifications.

The basic syntax for creating a notification with dunstify is:

# dunstify [options] "message"

The “message” parameter is the text that will be displayed in the notification. Dunstify also accepts several options such as:

  • -u or –urgency to set the urgency level of the notification.
  • -r or –replace to replace an existing notification with the same ID.
  • -i or –icon to specify an icon that will be displayed in the notification.
  • -t or –timeout to set the duration of the notification.

Dunstify is a part of Dunst package, it’s not a built-in command in all Linux distributions, you may need to install Dunst package first before you can use dunstify command.

If you encounter the below error while running the command dunstify:

dunstify: command not found

you may try installing the below package as per your choice of distribution:

Distribution Command
Debian apt-get install dunst
Ubuntu apt-get install dunst
Alpine apk add dunst
Arch Linux pacman -S dunst
Kali Linux apt-get install dunst
Fedora dnf install dunst
Raspbian apt-get install dunst

dunstify Command Examples

1. Show a notification with a given title and message:

# dunstify "Title" "Message"

2. Show a notification with specified urgency:

# dunstify "Title" "Message" -u low|normal|critical

3. Specify a message ID (overwrites any previous messages with the same ID):

# dunstify "Title" "Message" -r 123

4. To see other possible options:

# notify-send --help

Filed Under: Linux

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