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Mr.Doko

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Registered: 2017-05-14

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[SOLVED]Problems using Dunst

Hello guys,

I was trying to enable notifications on my laptop. I am using i3, and I decided to use Dunst as notifcation server. Following https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … on_servers, I have installed libnotify and dunst-git. I also copied the dunstrc to my .config folder. Now, I want to make a test notification with it, so I try to execute on the terminal the following command:

dunst hello-world

But nothing shows up on the screen, even though the terminal looks like it is executing, because it doesn't show any errors. What can I do to debug the problem here? Am I missing a step or doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance

Last edited by Mr.Doko (2017-05-20 21:15:18)

Slithery

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Re: [SOLVED]Problems using Dunst

You don't use dunst to create a notification, you use notify-send...

notify-send --help

Last edited by Slithery (2017-05-20 20:05:31)

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED]Problems using Dunst

dunst is the notification SERVER ...
You want to run it and then

notify-send 'noobs say what?'

to test it

Edit: blast.

Last edited by seth (2017-05-20 20:06:59)

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Mr.Doko

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Registered: 2017-05-14

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Re: [SOLVED]Problems using Dunst

Thanks for the response, but same result. Nothing has been shown on the screen.

EDIT: Duh, I got it. I didn't started dunst as daemon before executing notify-send. Now it works. Thanks

Last edited by Mr.Doko (2017-05-20 21:14:53)