swaync - A simple notification daemon with a GTK gui for notifications and the control center

NAME  USAGE  OPTIONS  Control Center Keyboard Shortcuts  CONFIGURATION  Scripting  Disable scripting  Waybar Example 

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NAME

swaync - A simple notification daemon with a GTK gui for notifications and the control center

USAGE

swaync [option]

OPTIONS

-h, --help

Show help options

-v, --version

Prints version

-s, --style <CSS file>

Use a custom Stylesheet file

--skip-system-css

Skip trying to parse the packaged Stylesheet file. Useful for CSS debugging

-c, --config <Config file>

Use a custom config file

Control Center Keyboard Shortcuts

Up/Down: Navigate notifications

Home: Navigate to the latest notification

End: Navigate to the oldest notification

Escape/Caps_Lock: Close notification panel

Return: Execute default action or close notification if none

Delete/BackSpace: Close notification

Shift+C: Close all notifications

Shift+D: Toggle Do Not Disturb

Buttons 1-9: Execute alternative actions

Left click button / actions: Activate notification action

Middle/Right click notification: Close notification

CONFIGURATION

The main config file is located in /etc/xdg/swaync/config.json. Copy it over to your ~/.config/swaync/ folder to customize without needing root access.

To reload the config, you’ll need to run swaync-client --reload-config

For information on the config file format, see swaync(5)

Scripting

Scripting rules and logic:

	1.		Only one script can be fired per notification
	2.		Each script requires ‘exec‘ and at least one of the other properties
	3.		All listed properties must match the notification for the script to be ran
	4.		If any of the properties doesn’t match, the script will be skipped
	5.		If a notification doesn’t include one of the properties, that property will be skipped

Notification information can be printed into a terminal by running G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all swaync (when a notification appears).

Config properties:

{

			"scripts": {
				"example-script": {
				"exec": "Your shell command or script here...",
				"app-name": "Notification app-name Regex",
				"summary": "Notification summary Regex",
				"body": "Notification body Regex",
				"urgency": "Low or Normal or Critical",
				"category": "Notification category Regex"
				}
			}
			other non scripting properties...

}

config.json example:

{

			"scripts": {
				// This script will only run when Spotify sends a notification containing
				// that exact summary and body
				"example-script": {
				"exec": "˜/.config/swaync/myRickRollScript.sh",
				"app-name": "Spotify"
				"summary": "Never Gonna Give You Up",
				"body": "Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody"
				}
			}
			other non scripting properties...

}

Disable scripting

To completely disable scripting, the project needs to be built like so:

meson build -Dscripting=false
ninja -C build
meson install -C build

Waybar Example

This example requires NotoSansMono Nerd Font to get the icons looking right

Waybar config

"custom/notification": {

			"tooltip": false,
			"format": "{icon}",
			"format-icons": {
			"notification": "ï¢<span foreground=’red’><sup>ï</sup></span>",
			"none": "ï¢",
			"dnd-notification": "ï·<span foreground=’red’><sup>ï</sup></span>",
			"dnd-none": "ï·",
			"inhibited-notification": "ï¢<span foreground=’red’><sup>ï</sup></span>",
			"inhibited-none": "ï¢",
			"dnd-inhibited-notification": "ï·<span foreground=’red’><sup>ï</sup></span>",
			"dnd-inhibited-none": "ï·"
			},
			"return-type": "json",
			"exec-if": "which swaync-client",
			"exec": "swaync-client -swb",
			"on-click": "swaync-client -t -sw",
			"on-click-right": "swaync-client -d -sw",
			"escape": true

},

Waybar css file

#custom-notification {

font-family: "NotoSansMono Nerd Font";

}

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