Review of Systemd file for Notifications

On my computers (22.04, 24.04 and 24.10) the file /usr/bin/notify-send is not empty. I think something went sideways on your system.

Try this on the commandline:

notify-send  summary body

If that does not work (which I assume because on your system it is empty) you might want to see if it is installed:

apt search libnotify-bin

And perhaps reinstall it

sudo apt install --reinstall libnotify-bin

The service that you want to create will not work because:

  1. /usr/bin/notify-send can not be used as a service c.q. daemon.
  2. /usr/bin/notify-send on your system seems to be an empty file and will therefore do nothing.
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