sencer / i3-notifier

Unobtrusive Notification Manager for i3
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i3 Notification Manager (Requires a recent version of rofi)

This is a notification manager for i3 desktop environment inspired by Rofication. Like Rofication, it implements the Gnome Desktop Notifications Standard standard.

Also see the companion py3status module py3-notifier.

Differences from Rofication

What does it look like?

animation

Usage

To install (also see the requirements.txt)

pip install i3-notifier

Make sure you are not running any other notification daemon (if you are running dunst for example, kill it with killall dunst). Then start i3-notifier. You might want to make sure i3-notifier and its companion script switch-to-urgent.py are in the $PATH. You can confirm it is running by

dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications /org/freedesktop/Notifications org.freedesktop.Notifications.GetServerInformation

Then to launch GUI; bind this to a shortcut

dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications /org/freedesktop/Notifications org.freedesktop.Notifications.ShowNotifications

Keybindings

Key Action
j, Down, Tab or Ctrl-N Choose next
k, Up or Ctrl-P Choose previous
Enter, Space or Left Click Expand if group; execute action if singleton
Shift-Enter Execute action
Esc, Ctrl+[ or Backspace One level up or exit from top level
`, Ctrl+Backspace or Shift-Backspace Exit from any level.
Delete Delete notification or group
Ctrl+Delete, Shift+Delete Delete single notification

To get notification count & urgency

dbus-send --session --print-reply=literal --dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications /org/freedesktop/Notifications org.freedesktop.Notifications.ShowNotificationCount

One can use this with i3blocks to show notifications in the bar or even better switch to py3status and install py3-notifier.

command = "(dbus-send --session --print-reply=literal --dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications /org/freedesktop/Notifications org.freedesktop.Notifications.ShowNotificationCount 2>/dev/null || ($HOME/.local/bin/i3-notifier && echo '? ? ?'))|tr -s ' '|cut -d' ' -f 3"