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using gnome notification-daemon in i3

asked 2013-01-11 22:48:56 +0000

patrickshuff gravatar image

Hi!

I have spent several hours trying different notification daemons with pop up windows in i3 and I haven't found any as aesthetically pleasing as the standard notification-daemon. I am able to get the daemon to run (/usr/libexec/notification-daemon) but when using notify-send the popups happen all over the screen, and in many cases off the screen (I can tell because I see about 15 or so pixels of the bubble popup). Any thoughts on why the results are so sporadic and how I can get this working in i3? Or do you suggest any good notification engines?

P.s. I tried dunst and a hacky notify-osd...neither of which I liked.

Thanks in advance!

Patrick

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No definite solution, but I know of some people in the i3 IRC channel who are using notification-daemon without problems.

Michael gravatar imageMichael ( 2013-01-13 09:51:14 +0000 )edit

@patrickshuff It might be something specific with your configuration. I've user notification-daemon for quite some time.

MeanEYE gravatar imageMeanEYE ( 2013-01-14 02:52:51 +0000 )edit

notification-daemon should work just fine out of the box -- the bigger question is, why bother with it when you have to manually click a tiny icon with your mouse to display recent events? Gnome-shell seems a requirement to attach a keybinding to toggle show-hide events menu.

virtualeyes gravatar imagevirtualeyes ( 2013-03-11 00:30:20 +0000 )edit

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answered 2014-07-14 11:21:01 +0000

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updated 2014-07-14 11:21:37 +0000

Try xfce4-notifyd (gtk2) or mate-notification-daemon (gtk3) - those are the Debian package names, but your distro should have them too.

Both work well on i3 and provide the minimum features I need:

  • icon support
  • active monitor support (popup on the monitor you're working on, for multi-monitor setups)
  • configurable position to any corner of the screen
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