dunst
Dunst is a lightweight replacement for the notification daemons provided by most desktop environments. It’s very customizable, isn’t dependent on any toolkits, and therefore fits into those window manager centric setups we all love to customize to perfection.
Installation⚑
sudo apt-get install dunst
Test it's working with:
notify-send "Notification Title" "Notification Messages"
If your distro version is too old that doesn't have dunstctl or dunstify, you can install it manually:
git clone https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst.git
cd dunst
# Install dependencies
sudo apt install libdbus-1-dev libx11-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev libxss-dev libglib2.0-dev \
libpango1.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libxdg-basedir-dev libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev
# Build the program and install
make WAYLAND=0
sudo make WAYLAND=0 install
If it didn't create the systemd service you can create it yourself with this service file
[Unit]
Description=Dunst notification daemon
Documentation=man:dunst(1)
PartOf=graphical-session.target
[Service]
Type=dbus
BusName=org.freedesktop.Notifications
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/dunst
Slice=session.slice
Environment=PATH=%h/.local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
You may need to add more paths to PATH.
To see the logs of the service use journalctl --user -u dunst.service -f --since "15 minutes ago"
Configuration⚑
Read and tweak the ~/.dunst/dunstrc file to your liking. You have the default one here
You'll also need to configure the actions in your window manager. In my case i3wm:
bindsym $mod+b exec dunstctl close-all
bindsym $mod+v exec dunstctl context
Usage⚑
Configure each application notification⚑
You can look at rosoau config for inspiration