I was reinstalling i3wm, after playing around with other tiling WMs, through the ubuntu repository and when I started pidgin, I saw that i3 now obviously is using a notification bar when a blue bar with a "contact is online now"-message occured on top of the left side of my screen.
What tool exactly is this and how do I configure it? :)
Thanks a lot, jake
i3 is not responsible for notifications and does not provide a default either. What you saw is probably provided by your distribution by default or pidgin provides its own implementation.
FYI: on ubuntu installing i3 seems to be modifying the behavior of notify-osd so that notifications look different. I'm not sure how to get the normal ubuntu style notifications back. https://askubuntu.com/questions/544036/very-spartan-and-ugly-rendering-of-osd-notify-messages
badboy_ is right. Ubuntu based Systems use the command notify-send for desktop messages to be displayed. By default Ubuntu uses the notify-osd daemon to display the messages. It seems that ~/.notify-osd is used for its configuration however I didn't find a link with a howto.
You can use other notification daemons instead. I prefer dunst over it, but there are others, see here.
In order to run a different daemon I have the following lines in my i3 config:
exec killall -q notify-osd
exec --no-startup-id dunst -config ~/.i3/config_dunst
This exchanges the daemons.
It seems that the i3 package in ubuntu is installing dunst, which takes over for notifications from notify-osd.
Asked: 2014-06-29 12:12:36 +0000
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