Hello there.
I’d love to have a desktop notification telling me when my NixOS got upgraded (I use system.autoUpgrade.enable = true).
Did anybody do this? Or do you know how to do that?
Thanks!
Which desktop environment are you using?
The auto upgrade calls a systemd service and you could write a small service that runs after that.
The ExecStart could be as simple as notify-send "auto upgrade completed, please reboot soon!".
Not quite, since it would need a connection to the user’s dbus. It’d be quite tricky to get that without potentially unsafe hacks.
It is a systemd service so you should be able to add ExecStartPost that runs a notification script.
Another idea could be just triggering another systemd service on failure: https://youtu.be/lFnNBD6kw9k
It should work like described here: Making sure you're not a bot!
Right, that’s kinda what I mean though, neither of those solutions is great.
The “correct” solution between those two is definitely to use services.systembus-notify.enable, but as the warning in that module shows it’s definitely not as simple and clean as using notify-send.
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