bozydar / notifications-widget

Notifications widget

Collects notifications shown by naughty.

Features

• Shows the number of already collected in the top.
• Clicking the left button shows/hides a widget with titles and messages
• Clicking the right button resets the state. (Mark as read?)
• Mouse wheel - scrolls messages.

Installation

1. Clone the library (e.g. in the config directory ~/.config/awesome/)

   $ cd ~/.config/awesome/
   $ git clone [e-mail]:bozydar/notifications-widget.git
   

2. Edit the rc.lua
   1. Load the library local notifications_widget = require('notifications-widget.widget')
   2. Connect to the naughty callback

      naughty.config.notify_callback = function(args)
         notifications_widget:new_message(args)
         return args
      end

   3. Add the widget to the wibox

      -- Add widgets to the wibox
      s.mywibox:setup {
          layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal,
          -- ...
          s.mytasklist, -- Middle widget
          { -- Right widgets
              layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal,
              notifications_widget,  -- <-- for example put it there
              wibox.widget.systray(),
              mytextclock,
          },
      }
      
      

3. To test, send a message from the terminal

   $ notify-send "Title" "Something not really <i>interesting</i> message"
   

TODO

1. Show messages on the same screen as mouse - DONE
2. Remove messages after clicking on the widget - DONE
3. Show title in the box - DONE
4. Indicate that there is more messages there
5. Show icons