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netpumber

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 134

Customize the notify-send window

Hello. I tried to customize notify-send's window by creating a ~/.notify-osd file with this code in it, as i read somewhere on the net. The problem is that it doesn't seem to work. Is there any other way to customize it ? Im using XFCE 4.

slot-allocation = fixed
bubble-expire-timeout = 10sec
bubble-vertical-gap = 5px
bubble-horizontal-gap = 5px
bubble-corner-radius = 37,5%
bubble-icon-size = 30px
bubble-gauge-size = 6px
bubble-width = 240px
bubble-background-color = 131313
bubble-background-opacity = 90%
text-margin-size = 10px
text-title-size = 100%
text-title-weight = bold
text-title-color = ffffff
text-title-opacity = 100%
text-body-size = 90%
text-body-weight = normal
text-body-color = eaeaea
text-body-opacity = 100%
text-shadow-opacity = 100%

Raynman

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 1,539

Re: Customize the notify-send window

notify-send doesn't have a window. You need a daemon that handles notifications. notify-osd is one example, but there are others, such as xfce4-notifyd. In case you are using notify-osd, did you restart the daemon after creating that file?

Wibjarm

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Registered: 2012-05-04

Posts: 43

Re: Customize the notify-send window

If you installed the xfce4 and xfce4-goodies package groups as recommended by the wiki and aren't sure what notification daemon you have, it's probably xfce4-notifyd.  For that,

xfce4-notifyd-config

will bring up the settings window for it, but it doesn't have all that many options.  As the xfce website puts it, "There aren't any other tunables; if you do not see it in the settings dialog, it's not changeable.", so if that isn't enough options for you, you may want to look at switching to notify-osd or something like dunst, depending on what kind of features and options you're looking for.