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/