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Icon with Desktop Notifications (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When I send a notification with notify-send -i /path/to/my/icon.png "title" "message" , it appears wonderfully in Gnome 47.4. However, the icon is very tiny. According to the screenshots I saw, the icon can be very large. It is also obviously displayed in addition to the app icon. Is there a way to send such an icon in the message or another way to create desktop notifications?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How big is your icon in pixels? Maybe it can't scale up small images, it only scales down big ones. Scale it up manually in an editing software.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

256x256px. In my eyes, this should be ok.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't reproduce your issue. I just sent a 256x256px white png, and it looks like this:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Strange. I'm on Gnome 47.4. Is this XFCE in your screenshot?

And how could you add a image here? I have tried, but couldn't find a button to do so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's gnome 47.4, arch linux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hmm this is close enough to mine... Manjaro...

have Arch in parallel boot, but I'm not happy how it works with Steam Games. This is at least for me, a lot better with Manjaro. But anyway, I will compare with Arch settings next time im on it. Tomorrow I have to go to Bangkok for some weeks and can't use my private laptop for this time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Try to disable extensions first, maybe one of them messes it up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Good point. Will try that