Hi everyone,
I was looking for an app that should allow me to set a quick reminder without any additional functionality.
The one was found, it is at binary which is available by default on most (if not all) Linux
distributions (checkout man at).
Shortly, the at command allows you to specify a command and time you want to run that command at.
What I want, is to get a notification at some special time.
For notifications we can use notify-send,
but since I’m currently on Windows and use WSL, we will use my wsl-notify script
(checkout for notify-send replacement for WSL post)
Hi,
Unfortunately there is no way currently to make brilliant notify-send work on WSL.
The workaround is to install BurntToast which is
powershell module (or command) that allows you to show native notifications.
After it’s installed we can write a script that can execute PowerShell “cmdlet” from within WSL.
So when BurntToast is installed let’s create a super simple bash script (name it like wsl-notify)
#!/usr/bin/env -bash
powershell.exe "New-BurntToastNotification -Text \"$1\""
Give our wsl-notify execution rights (with chmod +x wsl-notify) and move it to /usr/bin folder with mv wsl-notify /usr/bin/