Dunst

Created søndag 25 december 2016

Dunst is a simple notification - It will catch notifications from libnotify and display them to the user.

Installation

$ pacman -S libnotify dunst

# Start Dunst through your xinitrc file

dunst &

Configuration

# Dunst reads its configuration from ~/.config/dunst/dunstrc (Github)

Usage

# Dunst will display normal and low urgency messages for 10sec.
# important messages will stick.

# mod4 = Super-key
# To close all notifications

# To close 1 notification

# Message History

Create your own notifications!

# You can send messages to libnotify with the notify-send command.
$ notify-send 'Hello world!' 'This is an example notification.' --icon=dialog-information

# The first string is the summary, the second is the body.
# This could be placed in a .sh script somewhere.

Urgency

# You can also define the urgency of the message
# low, normal or critical - only critical will stay longer than 10sec
# append -u to define the urgency of the message
$ notify-send 'Hello world!' 'This is an example notification.' -u critical

Writing notifications as root

# Get your UID - In my case, I had UID 1000
$ id -u

# -u to define which user (stick)
# Also correct the UID (1000) in the path=/run/usr/ string if necessary.
$ sudo -u stick DISPLAY=:0 DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus notify-send 'Hello world!' 'This is an example notification.'

Csharp

# Dunst also accepts other languages - like c#

using Notifications;
public class HelloWorld {
	static void Main() {
		var Hello = new Notification();
		Hello.Summary  = "Hello world!";
		Hello.Body     = "This is an example notification.";
		Hello.IconName = "dialog-information";
		Hello.Show();
	}
}

# This requires a depedency though : pacman -S notify-sharp-3
# This could be placed in a .cs file somewhere^
# You've might noticed the IconName method
# Icons can be fount here : https://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html

Tips and Tricks

# A few tips for notifications

Laptop/ Battery

# To easily get Battery notifications, also install Batify
$ yaourt -S batify

# And update the udev rules
$ udevadm control --reload-rules