[HN Gopher] Runst: Handle desktop notifications neatly on Linux
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Runst: Handle desktop notifications neatly on Linux
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 71 points
Date : 2023-03-05 12:01 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| markstos wrote:
| I'm happy for alternatives but didn't see a compelling reason to
| switch from dunst here.
|
| The author mentioned some uncool breaking changes but didn't
| elaborate.
| Mxrtxn wrote:
| And it only works on x11.
| encryptluks2 wrote:
| Looks pretty neat but needs a lot more screenshots. Even mako is
| pretty customizable and is created by one of the Sway
| contributors.
| rajishx wrote:
| using swaync with sway and i am pretty happy with it
| bee_rider wrote:
| > It is undeniable that notifications became an inescapable part
| of our overly techy lives in the past decade.
|
| Eh, I dunno. They make sense on a phone, which fundamentally is
| for contacting a person. The device is all about tasks which are
| not kicked off by a user. On a computer, though? What, is there
| some expectation that my computer will start doing things of its
| own volition? No notification handler is a perfectly good answer.
| JasonFruit wrote:
| I mostly agree, but there are a few notifications I really
| want, most particularly battery and device status
| notifications. If you have a mechanism for that, you might as
| well _have_ a mechanism for whatever other notifications might
| be offered, but also an easy way to eliminate the ones you don
| 't want.
| hulitu wrote:
| what's wrong with "watch -n 5 cat /proc/battery" ?
| bee_rider wrote:
| That makes sense. I have my battery icon just change to a
| more noticeable color when it gets low, but something more
| attention-grabbing could be nice.
| zamnos wrote:
| A very useful feature of a modern messaging system is desktop
| integration, which iMessage (on macOS), whatsapp, Signal,
| Slack, among others support, so at the very least I'd want a
| desktop notification system to properly handle those
| notifications. Oh and also received emails. But that aside,
| this is Linux - do you not have _any_ cronjobs? Like seriously
| any? Not even on other servers? Even if not from I 'd like
| notifications from those, as well as other background tasks (eg
| when a large data set has finished downloading). To be fair,
| these use cases are largely covered by Chrome notifications,
| but these are use cases a notification system cam do a better
| job of covering.
| bee_rider wrote:
| For messaging, I just have my phone nearby.
|
| For cronjobs, I haven't needed to add any. I guess some must
| come built in in Ubuntu. Generally these are more like
| completely background maintenance tasks, to the point where I
| don't care to know when they complete.
|
| I could see the point of a task that is sort of "kick it off
| and it'll let me know when it is done." I actually have some
| tasks that I stick in LSF that could probably benefit from
| something like that, but in my case they are short-running
| enough that I just check back in a couple minutes.
| yonrg wrote:
| Nice article. I like that style of writing.
|
| I'm also using dunst (with qtile). I'm using it since many many
| years and love it and hate it. I cannot make it work to keep
| critical notifications on until I acknowledge them with a click.
| The rest works well. Always keep it simple.
|
| I also remember there have been breaking changes, but I did not
| recall. I changed my config and got it to it
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