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Minsc

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Registered: 2012-07-16

Posts: 95

I3 and Dunst

Hello!

I just switched from Openbox to I3 - it's quite different, but I'm loving it.

So far I have been able to get dunst and a notify script via the dunst wiki working. Thank you! It works great.

However, I want any notify-send messages to be intercepted by i3blocks to display in my status area, but without the graphical notification.

I hope this doesn't detract from the idea of the project. I just want the messages it receives to be forwarded to the i3blocks status script.

So far to "hide" the graphical messages I have just set the transparency to 100 in ~/.config/dunst/dunstrc. Which seems to "hide" the messages (I use xcompmgr.)

My question: is there a way to disable graphical messages from dunst and simply forward any messages to scripts?

I have tried adding:

[i3blocks]
	summary = "*"
	script = /usr/local/bin/i3blocks_notify.sh
[ignore]
        summary = "*"
        format = ""

In the hope that the first would catch my i3blocks stuff, and any other stuff would be ignored.

Any ideas? Or am I trying to make dunst do something it's not designed to do? If so, are there any alternatives?

Thanks! - have some beer!

Edit: wording.

Last edited by Minsc (2014-06-19 00:47:32)

deadcyclo

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Registered: 2015-11-29

Posts: 1

Re: I3 and Dunst

Forget it. Didn't work after all

Last edited by deadcyclo (2015-11-29 14:20:39)

c0mm0ner

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Registered: 2015-11-09

Posts: 93

Re: I3 and Dunst

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/twmn-git/ is a notification daemon, which is designed specifically to integrated into a tilers bar.