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Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
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Feature Request: Add horizontal scrolling text for long messages instead of truncating it #1374

Open JayBeeDe opened 2 months ago

JayBeeDe commented 2 months ago

Instead of ellipsizing or word-wrapping long body texts (body => "%b" from the notification format), there should be a way to configure horizontal scrolling like old LCD:

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Add the 3 following settings to the global section:

bynect commented 2 months ago

I'm sure this would work for titles, but how about multiline bodies? Isn't vertical scrolling better for that?

JayBeeDe commented 2 months ago

Multi-line bodies + scrolling feature is not possible since scrolling feature requires horizontal_scroll=true and word_wrap=false

bynect commented 2 months ago

Multi-line bodies + scrolling feature is not possible since scrolling feature requires horizontal_scroll=true and word_wrap=false

I see

bynect commented 2 months ago

I like the idea however at the moment dunst doesn't support animations so we won't be able to implement this soon