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Markus00000

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Registered: 2011-03-27

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How to display notifications and how to log them? (xmonad)

My first issue is to get any notifications to work in xmonad:
I am lost somewhere between libnotify, notification-daemon, notify-send, dbus and some similar/alternative packages. For example for both notification-daemon and statnot (not simultaneously) I ended up with the daemon running but didn't see any notify-send notifications. Shouldn't these be printed to the terminal?

Then I wonder if the following is possible and which packages/configurations it would require:
* Having a daemon run that collects all notifications
* Being able to access all previous notifications from the terminal (or maybe from a GUI): "10:00 Email received..., 10:10 IM received..., 10:30 Remind alarm..." etc.
* Optional: Mark them as read or hide or filter them.

Dreams or reality (or both)?

Mr.Elendig

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Re: How to display notifications and how to log them? (xmonad)

Either write your own, or use one of the existing notify daemons?
eg xfce4-notifyd can print nice looking boxes for you when something happens. Don't know if it has a history feature though.

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vae77

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Re: How to display notifications and how to log them? (xmonad)

I use notify-osd.
Plus an script that show hours, battery and date, with keys mapped with xmonad. So I don't have any bars 

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synorgy

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Re: How to display notifications and how to log them? (xmonad)

This is rather old, but for the record - kill notification-daemon to get notifications working with statnot. What's happening is that notification-daemon is hijacking them before statnot gets them. Also, the notifications should be replacing / the status text that statnot is drawing, not print out to the terminal.

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Markus00000

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Re: How to display notifications and how to log them? (xmonad)

Thanks, I was unaware of this explanation.