This project is an replace to the original notification-daemon1. Instead of flashing a popup this daemon can easily changed into specific behavior. At the moment it will forward notifications to wmii2.

TODOS:

• make script more generic
• add support for possible features of specification3
  • Markup
  • Actions
  • Hints (category, urgency level, icon data, sound, desktop entry, ...)
  • Expiration Timeout
• replacing existing items

• feedback from wmii (actions, dismiss item, expire item, ...)

  Not everything of these items makes sense in context of minimalism but some sugar such as actions would be nice.

  IDEA1: Right click to status button will dismiss it. Left click will open a popup with icon data or buttons for actions.

  IDEA2: Replace complete wmii bar with notification. Show message in lbar and buttons in rbar.

BUGS:

• Sometimes the daemon hangs and can only killed with a SIGKILL.

SUBMODULE:

This Project requires the current version of ruby-dbus4. Only tested with version 0.3.0 and 0.5.0.

INSTALL:

Add/change service file for org.freedesktop.Notifications and copy rnotify.rb to /usr/libexec/rnotifyd.rb. DBus will call the script automatically if necessary.

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