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What’s a good notification daemon for i3?

asked Jun 13 '12

Michael gravatar image

updated Sep 9 '12

joepd gravatar image

When using GNOME, NetworkManager and other applications had these notification thingies. How can I get that in i3?

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answered Jun 13 '12

updated Jun 13 '12

In Ubuntu, the notify-osd comes by default. If using a different distro, you may install it, or the notification-daemon libnotify-bin packages (or whatever name it is if non debian distros).

Testing it:

notify-send --icon=gtk-info Test "This is a test"

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notify-send from the command line is not working for me. Is it working for other i3 users?

Gamonics gravatar imageGamonics (Feb 16 '15)edit

Same here. Will investigate.

Weishaupt gravatar imageWeishaupt (Feb 19 '15)edit

Installing `notify-osd` worked for me. Cheers :)

dylnmc gravatar imagedylnmc (Nov 2 '15)edit
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answered Jun 19 '12

gregf gravatar image

I just discovered dunst.

Dunst is a minimalistic notification daemon for Linux. It's designed to fit nicely into minimalistic window managers like dwm, but it should work on any Linux desktop.

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It's a great little notification daemon that can be easily configured. Although if you are a not an Arch Linux user, you'll need to compile it on your own. I needed to install `libxdg-basedir-dev` and `libxss-dev` on my Ubuntu before being able to compile. Install it with `make install`.

MeanEYE gravatar imageMeanEYE (Jun 29 '12)edit
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I am really enjoying dunst, thanks for pointing it out!

ab5tract gravatar imageab5tract (Jun 30 '12)edit
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Will vote this up when I get enough karma. Considering the small amount of i3 users, I'm wondering whether the voting karma threshold shouldn't be reduced to 3 (price of asking one question).

lkraav gravatar imagelkraav (Jul 2 '12)edit

Wow, I guess I will create a Fedora package for it.

lzap gravatar imagelzap (Aug 27 '12)edit

Link is broken, dunst is here: https://github.com/knopwob/dunst  

Tomas Sandven gravatar imageTomas Sandven (Apr 9 '15)edit
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answered Jun 13 '12

Zombro gravatar image

I use 'twmn', a notification daemon that dislays notifications in a one-line bar covering the i3bar.

It can display libnotify messages which fit nicely between the workspaces and some i3status output on the i3bar.

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Cool, thanks for the tip! - edit: It depends on qt, still managed to keep that off my system...

joepd gravatar imagejoepd (Jun 14 '12)edit

very nice! I'm gonna try that out!

bruno.braga gravatar imagebruno.braga (Jun 15 '12)edit
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answered Nov 2 '15

dylnmc gravatar image

I thought I would put it into an answer, as well.

Try installing notify-osd

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