notify-send supports html

[lmuserx4849]

I have always played games to format gui notifications, dialogs, messages using notify-send or kde's kdialog. I recently learned that they support a subset of html.
Fun times!

notify-send "<h3>Hello</h3>" "body<br/>body <a href="http://forums.linuxmint.com">Linux Mint Forums</a>"

kdialog --passivepopup "<h3>Hello</h3> body<br/>body <a href='http://forums.linuxmint.com'>Linux Mint Forums</a>"

[FreedomTruth]

Apparently, not always...

notify-send.jpg

[lmuserx4849]

Apparently, not always...

HHHmmm...

It works on all KDE. I've seen it on LMDE2 with MATE 1.18. I've been told that after the update to LMDE MATE <a> didn't work.

If I compare the two systems, inotify-tools are both at 3.14 and libnotify-bin is 0.7.6.

What do you see when you execute:

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dpkg -l $(dpkg -S /usr/bin/notify-send|cut -f 1 -d ':')   #1
lsb_release -d  #2

I see in the notify-send man page they point to the "Desktop Notifications Specification", which may or may not work in the real world

Update:
Following some threads at github, there have been problems with notifications and gnome 3 thus cinnamon. I haven't used gnome or cinnamon, so can't say for sure.

[FreedomTruth]

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$ dpkg -l $(dpkg -S /usr/bin/notify-send|cut -f 1 -d ':')
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                   Version          Architecture     Description
+++-======================-================-================-=================================================
ii  libnotify-bin          0.7.6-2svn1      amd64            sends desktop notifications to a notification dae
$ lsb_release -d
Description:	Linux Mint 18.1 Serena

I'm using MATE.

[lmuserx4849]

I thought I really found something with html support in notifications, but evidently the smart folks in the mate section of this forum knew about it. And they know it is not working the way it use to work. Argh. UUUmmmm, it works in kde

Possible bug in LM Mate 18.1 notification system

From the above link it looks like the module is: dpkg -l *mate-notification* and the git issue page is here.