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Fnott
Fnott is a keyboard driven and lightweight notification daemon for wlroots-based Wayland compositors.
It implements (parts of) the Desktop Notifications Specification.
Supports styling and progress hints:
Notifications are automatically sized (with the possibility of limiting their max width and height):
Supported features
- Summary
- Body
- Actions (requires a dmenu-like utility to display and let user select action)
- Urgency
- Icons
- PNGs (using libpng)
- SVGs (using bundled nanosvg)
- Markup
- Timeout
More documentation is available in the installed man pages:
- man fnott documents the server
- man fnottctl documents the client
- man fnott.ini documents the configuration
Requirements
Running
- fontconfig
- freetype
- pixman
- libpng
- wayland (client and cursor libraries)
- wlroots*
- dbus
- fcft, unless built as a subproject
* Fnott must be run in a Wayland compositor that implements the wlroots protocols.
Building
In addition to the dev variant of the packages above, you need:
- meson
- ninja
- scdoc
- wayland-protocols
- tllist, unless built as a subproject
Usage
Copy the example fnott.ini to ${HOME}/.config/fnott/fnott.ini and
edit to your liking.
Start the daemon by running fnott. Keep in mind that your environment
should start it automatically when a notification is emitted.
if your environment doesn't do it automatically,
you need to start a dbus session yourself:
dbus-daemon --session --address=unix:path=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus
Test it with e.g. notify-send "this is the summary" "this is the body".
Use fnottctl dismiss to dismiss the highest priority notification
(usually the oldest), fnottctl dismiss all to dismiss all
notifications, or fnottctl dismiss <id> to dismiss a specific
notification (use fnottctl list to list currently active
notifications).
Use fnottctl pause to disable notifications. fnottctl unpause will
re-enable notifications.
Additionally if you compositor implements either the KDE idle
protocol, or the newer idle-notify protocol, fnott will not dismiss
any notification if you are idle by the amount of time configured in
fnott.ini
You can also click on a notification to dismiss it.
Note: you probably want to bind at least fnottctl dismiss to a
keyboard shortcut in your Wayland compositor configuration.
Installation
To build, first, create a build directory, and switch to it:
mkdir -p bld/release && cd bld/release
Second, configure the build (if you intend to install it globally, you
might also want --prefix=/usr):
meson --buildtype=release ../..
Three, build it:
ninja
You can now run it directly from the build directory:
./fnott
Test that it works:
notify-send -a "MyApplicationName" "This Is The Summary" "hello world"
Optionally, install it:
ninja install
License
Fnott is released under the MIT license.
Fnott uses nanosvg, released under the Zlib license.