Deadd is desktop notification daemon inspired by Dunst written in Haskell. I used Dunst for many years. But I started to experiment with connecting my mobile phone through Kde connect and realized, that I want to have something like notification center. And looks like Deadd can do it, is heavily configurable and might be working just ok.
deadd-notification-center-bin latest aur
notify-send-py latest aur
### Margins for notification-center/notifications
margin-top: 0
margin-right: 0
### Margins for notification-center
margin-bottom: 0
### Width of the notification center/notifications in pixels.
width: 400
### Command to run at startup. This can be used to setup
### button states.
# startup-command: deadd-notification-center-startup
### Monitor on which the notification center/notifications will be
### printed. If "follow-mouse" is set true, this does nothing.
monitor: 0
### If true, the notification center/notifications will open on the
### screen, on which the mouse is. Overrides the "monitor" setting.
follow-mouse: false
notification-center:
### Margin at the top/right/bottom of the notification center in
### pixels. This can be used to avoid overlap between the notification
### center and bars such as polybar or i3blocks.
# margin-top: 0
# margin-right: 0
# margin-bottom: 0
### Width of the notification center in pixels.
width: 500
### Monitor on which the notification center will be printed. If
### "follow-mouse" is set true, this does nothing.
# monitor: 0
### If true, the notification center will open on the screen, on which
### the mouse is. Overrides the "monitor" setting.
follow-mouse: false
### Notification center closes when the mouse leaves it
hide-on-mouse-leave: false
### If newFirst is set to true, newest notifications appear on the top
### of the notification center. Else, notifications stack, from top to
### bottom.
new-first: true
### If true, the transient field in notifications will be ignored,
### thus the notification will be persisted in the notification
### center anyways
ignore-transient: false
### Custom buttons in notification center
buttons:
### Numbers of buttons that can be drawn on a row of the notification
### center.
# buttons-per-row: 5
### Height of buttons in the notification center (in pixels).
# button-height: 60
### Horizontal and vertical margin between each button in the
### notification center (in pixels).
# button-margin: 2
### Button actions and labels. For each button you must specify a
### label and a command.
actions:
# - label: VPN
# command: "sudo vpnToggle"
# - label: Bluetooth
# command: bluetoothToggle
# - label: Wifi
# command: wifiToggle
# - label: Screensaver
# command: screensaverToggle
# - label: Keyboard
# command: keyboardToggle
notification:
### If true, markup (<u>, <i>, <b>, <a>) will be displayed properly
use-markup: true
### If true, html entities (& for &, % for %, etc) will be
### parsed properly. This is useful for chromium-based apps, which
### tend to send these in notifications.
parse-html-entities: true
dbus:
### If noti-closed messages are enabled, the sending application
### will know that a notification was closed/timed out. This can
### be an issue for certain applications, that overwrite
### notifications on status updates (e.g. Spotify on each
### song). When one of these applications thinks, the notification
### has been closed/timed out, they will not overwrite existing
### notifications but send new ones. This can lead to redundant
### notifications in the notification center, as the close-message
### is send regardless of the notification being persisted.
send-noti-closed: false
app-icon:
### If set to true: If no icon is passed by the app_icon parameter
### and no application "desktop-entry"-hint is present, deadd will
### try to guess the icon from the application name (if present).
guess-icon-from-name: true
### The display size of the application icons in the notification
### pop-ups and in the notification center
icon-size: 20
image:
### The maximal display size of images that are part of
### notifications for notification pop-ups and in the notification
### center
size: 100
### The margin around the top, bottom, left, and right of
### notification images.
margin-top: 15
margin-bottom: 15
margin-left: 15
margin-right: 0
### Apply modifications to certain notifications:
### Each modification rule needs a "match" and either a "modify" or
### a "script" entry.
modifications:
### Match:
### Matches the notifications against these rules. If all of the
### values (of one modification rule) match, the "modify"/"script"
### part is applied.
# - match:
### Possible match criteria:
# title: "Notification title"
# body: "Notification body"
# time: "12:44"
# app-name: "App name"
# urgency: "low" # "low", "normal" or "critical"
# modify:
### Possible modifications
# title: "abc"
# body: "abc"
# app-name: "abc"
# app-icon: "file:///abc.png"
### The timeout has three special values:
### timeout: 0 -> don't time out at all
### timeout: -1 -> use default timeout
### timeout: 1 -> don't show as pop-up
### timeout: >1 -> milliseconds until timeout
# timeout: 1
# margin-right: 10
# margin-top: 10
# image: "file:///abc.png"
# image-size: 10
# transient: true
# send-noti-closed: false
### Remove action buttons from notifications
# remove-actions: true
### Add a class-name to the notification container, that can be
### used for specific styling of notifications using the
### deadd.css file
# class-name: "abc"
# - match:
# app-name: "Chromium"
### Instead of modifying a notification directly, a script can be
### run, which will receive the notification as JSON on STDIN. It
### is expected to return JSON/YAML configuration that defines the
### modifications that should be applied. Minimum complete return
### value must be '{"modify": {}, "match": {}}'. Always leave the "match"
### object empty (technical reasons, i.e. I am lazy).
# script: "linux-notification-center-parse-chromium"
- match:
app-name: "Seafile"
modify:
app-icon: "file:///usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/seafile.svg"
timeout: 1
transient: true
# - match:
# app-name: "Seafile"
# title: '"kepi-org" is synchronized'
# modify:
- match:
app-name: "Spotify"
modify:
image-size: 80
timeout: 2000
send-noti-closed: true
class-name: "Spotify"
# - match:
# title: Bildschirmhelligkeit
# modify:
# image-size: 60
popup:
### Default timeout used for notifications in milli-seconds. This can
### be overwritten with the "-t" option (or "--expire-time") of the
### notify-send command.
default-timeout: 5000
### Margin above/right/between notifications (in pixels). This can
### be used to avoid overlap between notifications and a bar such as
### polybar or i3blocks.
margin-top: 50
margin-right: 50
margin-between: 20
### Defines after how many lines of text the body will be truncated.
### Use 0 if you want to disable truncation.
max-lines-in-body: 3
### Monitor on which the notifications will be
### printed. If "follow-mouse" is set true, this does nothing.
# monitor: 0
### If true, the notifications will open on the
### screen, on which the mouse is. Overrides the "monitor" setting.
# follow-mouse: false
click-behavior:
### The mouse button for dismissing a popup. Must be either "mouse1",
### "mouse2", "mouse3", "mouse4", or "mouse5"
dismiss: mouse1
### The mouse button for opening a popup with the default action.
### Must be either "mouse1", "mouse2", "mouse3", "mouse4", or "mouse5"
default-action: mouse3
When trying new styles, you can use this snippet - in terminal - to have style automatically adjusting when you tangle this buffer:
while ! inotifywait -e close_write ~/.local/share/chezmoi/private_dot_config/deadd/deadd.css.tmpl; do chezmoi apply && notify-send.py a --hint boolean:deadd-notification-center:true string:type:reloadStyle; notify-send.py "Styles reloaded"; done
@define-color fg #fff;
@define-color bg rgba(27, 34, 36, 1.0);
@define-color border #181C1C;
@define-color critical rgb(120, 34, 36);
@define-color low rgb(39, 41, 52);
@define-color critical_popup rgba(120, 34, 36, 0.5);
@define-color low_popup rgba(39, 41, 52, 0.5);
@define-color close rgb(20, 26, 27);
@define-color close_normal rgba(145, 90, 94, 0.75);
@define-color close_hover rgb(244, 96, 103);
@define-color close_active rgb(241, 48, 57);
.blurredBG,
#main_window,
.blurredBG.low,
.blurredBG.normal {
background: @bg;
}
.blurredBG.notification {
background: rgba(31, 40, 42, 0.75);
border-radius: 5px;
}
#img_img {
border-radius: 10px;
}
.blurredBG.notification.critical {
background: @critical_popup;
}
.blurredBG.notification.low {
background: @low_popup;
}
.notificationInCenter {
border-radius: 3px;
border: 1pt @border solid;
margin-right: 0.75em;
margin-left: 0.5em;
}
.notificationInCenter.critical {
background: @critical;
}
.notificationInCenter.low {
background: @low;
}
.undershoot.top,
.undershoot.right,
.undershoot.bottom,
.undershoot.left {
background-image: none;
}
button.userbutton:not(:hover):not(:active),
button.delete-all:not(:hover):not(:active) {
border: 0.1em #1A1A1A solid;
}
button.deadd-noti-center.delete-all {
margin-bottom: 2px;
}
button.button-close {
background: @close_normal center;
margin-right: 0.5em;
padding-left: 0.2em;
padding-right: 0.2em;
padding-top: 0.1em;
padding-bottom: 0.1em;
border-radius: 1em;
}
button.button-close > label {
font-weight: bolder;
font-family: monospace;
padding: 0em;
margin: -1.4em;
font-size: 1.4em;
color: @close;
}
button.button-close:hover {
background: @close_hover;
}
button.button-close:active {
background: @close_active;
}
label {
color: #eae2e0;
}
label.notification {
color: #fef3f6;
}
label.critical {
color: #FFF;
}
button.buttonState1 {
background: rgba(46, 179, 152, 0.5);
}
button.buttonState2 {
background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3);
}
.userbuttonlabel.buttonState1 {
color: #fff;
}
.userbuttonlabel.buttonState2 {
color: #fff;
}
button.buttonState1:hover {
background: rgba(34, 43, 46, 0.4);
}
button.buttonState2:hover {
background: rgba(34, 43, 46, 0.3);
}
.userbuttonlabel.buttonState1:hover {
color: #fee;
}
.userbuttonlabel.buttonState2:hover {
color: #fee;
}
.title {
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 16px;
}
.appname {
font-size: 10px;
}
.time {
font-size: 12px;
}
.noti-center.time {
font-size: 32px;
}.notificationInCenter {
border-radius: 10px;
border: 0px;
}
/* merge notifications of like-type into single blob */
.notificationInCenter:not(.critical):not(:first-child) + .notificationInCenter:not(.critical),
.notificationInCenter.critical:not(:first-child) + .notificationInCenter.critical {
margin-top: -30px;
border-radius: 0px 0px 10px 10px;
padding-top: 10px;
border-top: 2px @bg dashed;
}
/* change blob-buttons to fit accordingly */
.notificationInCenter:not(.critical):not(:first-child) + .notificationInCenter:not(.critical) .button-close {
margin-top: -15px;
}
.notificationInCenter.critical:not(:first-child) + .notificationInCenter.critical .button-close {
margin-top: -15px;
border-radius: 0px 0px 10px 10px;
}
/* make first-child items look proper */
.notificationInCenter:first-child {
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
}