Michael
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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

bruno.braga

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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 (Feb 16 '15)edit

Same here. Will investigate.

Weishaupt (Feb 19 '15)edit

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

dylnmc (Nov 2 '15)edit

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answered Jun 19 '12

gregf

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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 (Jun 29 '12)edit

I am really enjoying dunst, thanks for pointing it out!

ab5tract (Jun 30 '12)edit

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).