Doesn't work when used within proces runner such as PM2 or CRONtab?

I’ve added script to my crontab somewhat like this:

@reboot /path/to/script
* * * * * /path/to/script

code runs, however there is no notification.

return notifier.notify({
  title: 'foo',
  message: randomMessage(),
})

Same issue with PM2. So it appears that when it’s being ran by some different process, not from user’s shell, then it fails to send notification to desktop.

Same issue when using with gnome-session-properties. Linked SO question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49221716/when-using-notify-send-inside-some-process-runner-such-as-cron-or-pm2-notificat

Versions: Ubuntu 16.04 Gnome3 (gubuntu distro). notify-send 0.7.6 “node-notifier”: “^5.2.1”,

[SPDUK]

I’m trying to send notifications from cron, and the notifications don’t display under ubuntu 19.04. It does work under task scheduler on windows 10, though (using the exact same scripts).

Trying to run notify-send in general from cron does not work properly, but I found a this on SO which makes it work correctly from cron * * * * * XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u) notify-send Hey "this is dog!

So in my .sh script I’ve added export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u) to the top of it, and that has made it work from cron for linux.

[mikaelbr]

Related to #333