[SOLVED] where is the notify-send message in dwm displayed?

awayand · 2011-07-12 10:02:43

I am trying

$ notify-send "Hello, world!"

in my window manager DWM but I cannot see the notification anywhere. I have no scripts updating my status line in the top right corner, which just reads "dwm-5.9". I do have notification-daemon installed. I tried xfce4-notifyd which worked fine, but I want to use the barebones notification-daemon. Any ideas? Maybe the message doesn't pop up because dwm is not showing the window?

Last edited by awayand (2011-07-12 10:04:24)

awayand · 2011-07-12 10:04:07

not sure what happened, but now it works. I just reinstalled notification-daemon and the message shows up in the top right corner.

JokerBoy · 2011-07-12 10:56:55

you should give statnot a try.

statnot+dzen2
vOWc4dw

wildfowl · 2014-10-29 22:01:04

So I'm not understanding why notify-send doesn't work with dwm?
On the same machine it works fine under AWM.

jasonwryan · 2014-10-29 22:16:34

Please don't necrobump old threads (especially solved ones): https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

dwm is not EWMH complaint: as JokerBoy suggests use dzen2.

Closing

# edit: schooled by Trilby

Trilby · 2014-10-29 22:46:25

Abusing powers to post in a closed thread, I'll just add that EWMH compliance actually isn't relevant. You just need a notification daemon running (or at least available). notify-send from libnotify only sends the message. Something else needs to recieve and display it (this is well covered in the wiki). I installed one of the notification tools and confirms it works in a WM much much farther from EWMH compliance than dwm (new versions of dwm are at least partially EWMH supporting).

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#1 2011-07-12 10:02:43

[SOLVED] where is the notify-send message in dwm displayed?

#2 2011-07-12 10:04:07

Re: [SOLVED] where is the notify-send message in dwm displayed?

#3 2011-07-12 10:56:55

Re: [SOLVED] where is the notify-send message in dwm displayed?

#4 2014-10-29 22:01:04

Re: [SOLVED] where is the notify-send message in dwm displayed?

#5 2014-10-29 22:16:34

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#6 2014-10-29 22:46:25

Re: [SOLVED] where is the notify-send message in dwm displayed?

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