Notify-send/notify-OSD is still working on 18.04? Replacement?

[smurf]

Hi! I have ubuntu mate 18.04, up to 16.04 I was used to send notification from bash script using notify-osd, but now I see that the default notify-send is not working like before and notify-osd is not properly working on 18.04.
The notification box that produce notify-send is quite ugly (very small and has a blue landscape) and I'm getting crazy on the internet looking for a way to customize it, furthermore there is no way to display an icon in the box.
Can somebody help me, please?

[lah7]

Notify OSD seems to still work in 18.04. From a fresh install after installing notify-osd:

If you've upgraded to 18.04, you could try reinstalling so it reconfigures itself:

sudo apt install --reinstall notify-osd notify-osd-icons

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I'm aware there is a notifyosdconf which is a modified notify-osd adding customisation options - I'm not sure if it still works today:

How to replace MATE's notification daemon (and customize it!)

#Introduction It might seem silly at first; Why replace the notification daemon when MATE’s daemon is good enough? Because it isn’t good enough. It’ll never be good enough. Know why? Because you can mod notify-osd, which is something you can’t do with the supplied themes mate-notification-daemon installs. If you’re alright with the default daemon, then by all means ignore this guide. But if you want to have one you can customize and control til’ your heart’s content, then follow along and you’…

[smurf]

Thank you for your reply lah7 .
My installation is a fresh installation from scratch, no compiz, no strange ppa. I use marco wm (no compton).
I attach two screenshot, the first one is without notify-osd, the second one is with notify-osd installed.

[lah7]

I don't quite recognise which notification is rendering that, but notify-osd doesn't look like it's running. Maybe try removing MATE's notification daemon:

sudo apt-get remove mate-notification-daemon

Check there is a notify-osd process running in System Monitor:

If there is not, try running it via the terminal, and try notify-send again.

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/notify-osd

If this works, add the command to Start-up Applications. It could reveal an error, like another process listening for notifications:

** (notify-osd:2841): WARNING **: 22:30:36.208: Another instance has already registered org.freedesktop.Notifications

** (notify-osd:2841): WARNING **: 22:30:36.208: Could not register instance

[smurf]

I removed mate-notification-daemon, but nothing has changed.
I rebooted the system, always the same.
In system-monitor I can't find notify-osd, but if I try to start it from a terminal I receive a message that another instance is already registered, impossible to start a new instance.
I tried to uninstall and re-install, nothing.
Something is wrong, but I can't understand what.

[smurf]

ok, Got it.
A couple of months ago I tried i3 wm and, after uninstallation, it left a package called dunst that interferes with notifications.
I removed the package, logged out, logged in and the problem was fixed.
Sorry.
Thank you anyway.