Messenger client notification. Dzen or xmobar

Mr Fix It · 2010-04-20 15:39:14

Howdy guys.

I just took the plunge into arch, and have been setting it up from the ground up. Which has been damn fun and i've learnt alot.

I've also jumped into using xmonad, and i'm loving it. However what i want (which i'm confused to accomplish) is a notification when a window wants my attention. I'm using it on a netbook, so i'm making alot of use of the multiple workspaces. I'd like to be informed when a window wants me (someone talking ).

Which one would be best to go after this xmobar or dzen?. I'm actually liking having no bars at the top right now, but i would prefer to know whats going on workspace wise.

Any shoves in the right direction would be greatly appreciated

Mr.Elendig · 2010-04-20 16:25:07

What bar you use does not matter at all.
What you want is XMonad-Hooks-UrgencyHook

I have UrgencyHook in my config which you can find here

Edit: you could also use a notification daemon of some sort, with notification in your bar, a seperate popup or trough macopix or similar.

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2010-04-20 16:28:40)

chpln · 2010-04-20 22:34:26

I'm currently using dzen, though I prefer xmobar for its simplicity. Unfortunately, xmobar is currently very unstable when built against ghc-6.12 and may crash when displaying utf8 characters.

Mr Fix It · 2010-04-21 10:33:52

import XMonad
import XMonad.Hooks.UrgencyHook

main = xmonad $ withUrgencyHookC dzenUrgencyHook { 
            args = ["-bg", "darkblue", "-xs", "1"] }
            UrgencyConfig { suppressWhen = Focused, remindWhen = Every 5 }
        $ defaultConfig { 
            borderWidth = 1
            , modMask = mod4Mask
            , terminal = "urxvt"
            , normalBorderColor = "#000000"
            , focusedBorderColor = "#666666" }

Here's what i've managed to clean so far.

It does seem to pop-up, however i would like it to repeat. I'm a bit new to haskell so i'm not sure if i've written the UrgencyConfig correct, eg the Every 5 constructor.

Im trying to make it appear every 5 seconds.

Thanks.

EDIT:

above code actually works . Geussing xmonad didn't refresh properly last night.

Cool. Hope it helps someone else.

Last edited by Mr Fix It (2010-04-21 10:45:30)

syre · 2010-04-21 10:47:28

how would one accomplish it with dzen?

Mr Fix It · 2010-04-21 11:13:16

hey syre.

The code i posted uses dzen. It makes a blue box appear ontop of the screen, that re-appears every 5 seconds (this needs tweaking). It keeps on doing this until you focus the window that wants your attention.

Not sure what would happen when multiple windows want your attention. But so far works really well.
Using emesene it comes up with " xxx wants your attention on workspace y"

Mr.Elendig · 2010-04-21 14:25:08

chpln wrote:

I'm currently using dzen, though I prefer xmobar for its simplicity. Unfortunately, xmobar is currently very unstable when built against ghc-6.12 and may crash when displaying utf8 characters.

Not if you use xmobar-darcs

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#1 2010-04-20 15:39:14

Messenger client notification. Dzen or xmobar

#2 2010-04-20 16:25:07

Re: Messenger client notification. Dzen or xmobar

#3 2010-04-20 22:34:26

Re: Messenger client notification. Dzen or xmobar

#4 2010-04-21 10:33:52

Re: Messenger client notification. Dzen or xmobar

#5 2010-04-21 10:47:28

Re: Messenger client notification. Dzen or xmobar

#6 2010-04-21 11:13:16

Re: Messenger client notification. Dzen or xmobar

#7 2010-04-21 14:25:08

Re: Messenger client notification. Dzen or xmobar

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