Cron with notify-send

Question

I need to show a notification from a cron job. My crontab is something like:

$ crontab -l
# m h  dom mon dow   command
  * *   *   *   *    Display=:0.0 /usr         


        

Answer 1

Only this works for me (Xubuntu)

eval "export $(egrep -z DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS /proc/$(pgrep -u $LOGNAME xfce4-session)/environ)"; notify-send  "hello world" 

If you are in gnome enviroment, you need change xfce4-session to gnome-session

refer: https://askubuntu.com/questions/298608/notify-send-doesnt-work-from-crontab