# .xsessionrc might only be read on Debian and its derivatives like Ubuntu. # This is a workaround to make notify-send inside cron jobs work. # Thanks to this dude: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/111190/60124 # Then you source ~/.dbus/Xdbus inside your cron job, and voilĂ ! touch "$HOME/.dbus/Xdbus" \ && chmod 0600 "$HOME/.dbus/Xdbus" \ && [ -n "${DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS+x}" ] \ && command -v printf > /dev/null 2>&1 \ && printf -- 'export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=%q\n' "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" > "$HOME/.dbus/Xdbus"