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NAME
dunst - configuration file
DESCRIPTION
The configuration is divided into sections in an ini-like format. Every section start with
the section's name in square brackets. After that is a list of key-value pairs that
specify the settings. Whitespace is purely cosmetic and doesn't matter for the result.
The 'global' section contains the general settings applying to all of dunst. The rest of
the settings can be specified via rules and can be located in any section. These rules can
change a notification based on it's properties. There are filtering rules and modifying
rules. The filtering rules specify on what notifications the rule is applied and the
modifying rules specify what is changed about the matching notifications. Some special
sections have implied filters that cannot be changed. The "global" section, for example
has no filters, thus applies to all notifications.
See RULES for more details.
All experimental settings are marked with Experimental
Global section
monitor (default: 0)
Specifies on which monitor the notifications should be displayed in, count starts at
0. See the follow setting.
follow (values: [none/mouse/keyboard] default: none)
Defines where the notifications should be placed in a multi-monitor setup. All values
except none override the monitor setting.
On Wayland there is no difference between mouse and keyboard focus. When either of the
is used, the compositor will choose an output. This will generally be the output last
interacted with.
none
The notifications will be placed on the monitor specified by the monitor setting.
mouse
The notifications will be placed on the monitor that the mouse is currently in.
keyboard
The notifications will be placed on the monitor that contains the window with
keyboard focus.
enable_posix_regex (default: false)
When set to true (recommended), you can use POSIX regular expressions for filtering
rules. It uses the POSIX Extended Regular Expression syntax:
https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Regular_Expressions/POSIX-Extended_Regular_Expressions.
If this is set to false (not recommended), dunst will us fnmatch(3) for matching
strings. Dunst doesn't pass any flags to fnmatch, so you cannot make use of extended
patterns.
The POSIX syntax is more powerful and will eventually become the default. The main
differences between POSIX and fnmatch(3) is that POSIX uses ".*" for wildcards instead
of "*" and POSIX allows for partial matches without needing wildcards. This means
that the pattern "abc" will match all strings that contain "abc", like "abcdef".
geometry DEPRECATED
This setting is deprecated and removed. It's split up into width, height, origin,
notification_limit and offset. For quickly transitioning to the new syntax, you can
take the numbers from your old geometry config as follows:
geometry = <width>x<height>+<offset>
In the new config you can then set the following variables (make sure to remove any
negative signs)
width = <width>
height = <height>
offset = <offset>
origin = top-right # or top-left, or any other direction you prefer
width
The width of the notification window in pixels. This can be a single number to specify
a constant width or two numbers for the minimum and maximum width. The notification
will expand from the minimum width as neccesary.
Examples:
width = 300 # constant width of 300
width = (0, 300) # width between 0 and 300
When setting a width bigger than the screen, dunst will clamp the width to the screen
width. So if you want the notifcation to stretch the entire screen dynamically, you
may set the width to a high enough number, which none of your screens exceed (e.g.
10000).
height
The maximum height of a single notification.
notification_limit (default: 0)
The number of notifications that can appear at one time. When this limit is reached
any additional notifications will be queued and displayed when the currently displayed
ones either time out or are manually dismissed. The value 0 means no limit. If
indicate_hidden is true, then the specified limit is reduced by 1 and the last
notification is a message informing how many hidden notifications are waiting to be
displayed. See the indicate_hidden entry for more information.
origin (default: top-right)
The origin of the notification window on the screen. It can then be moved with offset.
Origin can be one of:
top-left
top-center
top-right
bottom-left
bottom-center
bottom-right
left-center
center
right-center
offset format: (horizontal, vertical)
Respectively the horizontal and vertical offset in pixels from the corner of the
screen specified by origin. A negative offset will lead to the notification being off
screen.
Examples:
origin = top-right
offset = 10x300 # a margin of 10 pixels from the right and 300 pixels from the
top
scale (default: 0, X11 only)
Specifies a scale factor for dimensions to adapt notifications to HiDPI screens. This
scales the notification geometry and it's contents. It is not recommended to use a
fractional scaling factor, as this may result in things being one pixel off. Try to
use a whole number scaling factor and adjust the font size and other sizes as needed.
If 0 is specified, the scale factor is auto-detected.
progress_bar (values: [true/false], default: true)
When an integer value is passed to dunst as a hint (see NOTIFY-SEND), a progress bar
will be drawn at the bottom of the notification. This behavior can be turned off by
setting this setting to false.
progress_bar_horizontal_alignment (values: [left/center/right], default: center)
Horizontal alignment of the progress bar. The progress bar will always keep a distance
of horizontal_padding from the edge of the notification.
progress_bar_height (default: 10)
The height of the progress bar in pixel. This includes the frame. Make sure this value
is bigger than twice the frame width.
progress_bar_min_width (default: 150)
The minimum width of the progress bar in pixels. The notification is rescaled to fit
the bar.
progress_bar_max_width (default: 300)
The maximum width of the progress bar in pixels. The notification is resized to fit
the progress bar.
progress_bar_frame_width (default: 1)
The frame width of the progress bar in pixels. This value should be smaller than half
of the progress bar height.
indicate_hidden (values: [true/false], default: true)
If this is set to true, a notification indicating how many notifications are not being
displayed due to the notification limit (see notification_limit) will be shown in
place of the last notification slot.
Meaning that if this is enabled the number of visible notifications will be 1 less
than what is specified by notification_limit, the last slot will be taken by the
hidden count.
transparency (default: 0) (X11 only)
A 0-100 range on how transparent the notification window should be, with 0 being fully
opaque and 100 invisible.
To make windows transparent on wayland, set the transparency part of a color, see
COLORS.
This setting will only work if a compositor is running.
separator_height (default: 2)
The height in pixels of the separator between notifications, if set to 0 there will be
no separating line between notifications.
padding (default: 8)
The distance in pixels from the content to the separator/border of the window in the
vertical axis
horizontal_padding (default: 8)
The distance in pixels from the content to the border of the window in the horizontal
axis
text_icon_padding (default: 0)
The distance in pixels from the text to the icon (or vice versa) in the horizontal
axis.
Setting this to a non-zero value overwrites any padding that horizontal_padding was
adding between the notification text and icon.
So for example setting
text_icon_padding=10
horizontal_padding=10
is equivalent to
text_icon_padding=0
horizontal_padding=10
frame_width (default: 3)
Defines width in pixels of frame around the notification window. Set to 0 to disable.
separator_color (values: [auto/foreground/frame/#RRGGBB] default: frame)
Sets the color of the separator line between two notifications.
auto
Dunst tries to find a color that fits the rest of the notification color scheme
automatically.
foreground
The color will be set to the same as the foreground color of the topmost
notification that's being separated.
frame
The color will be set to the frame color of the notification with the highest
urgency between the 2 notifications that are being separated.
anything else
Any other value is interpreted as a color, see COLORS
sort (values: [true/false], default: true)
If set to true, display notifications with higher urgency above the others.
idle_threshold (default: 0)
Don't timeout notifications if user is idle longer than this time. See TIME FORMAT
for valid times.
Set to 0 to disable.
A client can mark a notification as transient to bypass this setting and timeout
anyway. Use a rule with 'set_transient = no' to disable this behavior.
Note: this doesn't work on xwayland.
layer (Wayland only)
One of bottom, top or overlay.
Place dunst notifications on the selected layer. Using overlay will cause
notifications to be displayed above fullscreen windows, though this may also occur at
top depending on your compositor.
The bottom layer is below all windows and above the background.
Default: overlay
force_xwayland (values: [true/false], default: false) (Wayland only)
Force the use of X11 output, even on a wayland compositor. This setting has no effect
when not using a Wayland compositor.
font (default: "Monospace 8")
Defines the font or font set used. Optionally set the size as a decimal number after
the font name and space. Multiple font options can be separated with commas.
This options is parsed as a Pango font description.
line_height (default: 0)
The amount of extra spacing between text lines in pixels. Set to 0 to disable.
format (default: "<b>%s</b>\n%b")
Specifies how the various attributes of the notification should be formatted on the
notification window.
Regardless of the status of the markup setting, any markup tags that are present in
the format will be parsed. Note that because of that, if a literal ampersand (&) is
needed it needs to be escaped as '&'
If '\n' is present anywhere in the format, it will be replaced with a literal newline.
If any of the following strings are present, they will be replaced with the equivalent
notification attribute.
%a appname
%s summary
%b body
%i iconname (including its path)
%I iconname (without its path)
%p progress value ([ 0%] to [100%])
%n progress value without any extra characters
%% Literal %
If any of these exists in the format but hasn't been specified in the notification
(e.g. no icon has been set), the placeholders will simply be removed from the format.
vertical_alignment (values: [top/center/bottom], default: center)
Defines how the text and icon should be aligned vertically within the notification. If
icons are disabled, this option has no effect.
show_age_threshold (default: 60)
Show age of message if message is older than this time. See TIME FORMAT for valid
times.
Set to -1 to disable.
ignore_newline (values: [true/false], default: false)
If set to true, replace newline characters in notifications with whitespace.
stack_duplicates (values: [true/false], default: true)
If set to true, duplicate notifications will be stacked together instead of being
displayed separately.
Two notifications are considered duplicate if the name of the program that sent it,
summary, body, icon and urgency are all identical.
hide_duplicate_count (values: [true/false], default: false)
Hide the count of stacked duplicate notifications.
show_indicators (values: [true/false], default: true)
Show an indicator if a notification contains actions and/or open-able URLs. See
ACTIONS below for further details.
min_icon_size (default: 0)
Defines the minimum size in pixels for the icons. If the icon is larger than or equal
to the specified value it won't be affected. If it's smaller then it will be scaled
up so that the smaller axis is equivalent to the specified size.
Set to 0 to disable icon upscaling. (default)
If icon_position is set to off, this setting is ignored.
max_icon_size (default: 32)
Defines the maximum size in pixels for the icons. If the icon is smaller than or
equal to the specified value it won't be affected. If it's larger then it will be
scaled down so that the larger axis is equivalent to the specified size.
Set to 0 to disable icon downscaling.
If both min_icon_size and max_icon_size are enabled, the latter gets the last say.
If icon_position is set to off, this setting is ignored.
icon_path (default:
"/usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/status/:/usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/devices/")
Can be set to a colon-separated list of paths to search for icons to use with
notifications.
Dunst doens't search outside of these direcories. For a recursive icon lookup system,
see enable_recursive_icon_lookup. This new system will eventually replace this and
will need new settings.
icon_theme (default: "Adwaita", example: "Adwaita, breeze") Experimental
Comma-separated of names of the the themes to use for looking up icons. This has to be
the name of the directory in which the theme is located, not the human-friendly name
of the theme. So for example, the theme Breeze Dark is located in
/usr/share/icons/breeze-dark. In this case you have to set the theme to breeze-dark.
The first theme in the list is the most important. Only if the icon cannot be found in
that theme, the next theme will be tried.
Dunst will look for the themes in XDG_DATA_HOME/icons and $XDG_DATA_DIRS/icons as
specified in the icon theme specification:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html.
If the theme inherits from other themes, they will be used as a backup.
This setting is experimental and not enabled by default. See
enable_recursive_icon_lookup for how to enable it.
enable_recursive_icon_lookup (default: false) Experimental
This setting enables the new icon lookup method. This new system will eventually be
the old icon lookup.
Currently icons are looked up in the icon_path and scaled according to min_icon_size
and max_icon_size. Since the icon_path wasn't recursive, one had to add a ton of paths
to this list. This has been drastically simplified by the new lookup method. Now you
only have to set icon_theme to the name of the theme and icon_size to the icon size
you want. To enable this new behaviour, set enable_recursive_icon_lookup to true in
the [experimental] section. See the respective settings for more details.
sticky_history (values: [true/false], default: true)
If set to true, notifications that have been recalled from history will not time out
automatically.
history_length (default: 20)
Maximum number of notifications that will be kept in history. After that limit is
reached, older notifications will be deleted once a new one arrives. See HISTORY.
dmenu (default: "/usr/bin/dmenu -p dunst")
The command that will be run when opening the context menu. Should be either a dmenu
command or a dmenu-compatible menu.
browser (default: "/usr/bin/xdg-open")
The command that will be run when opening a URL. The URL to be opened will be appended
to the end of the value of this setting.
always_run_script (values: [true/false] default: true]
Always run rule-defined scripts, even if the notification is suppressed with format =
"". See SCRIPTING.
title (default: "Dunst")
Defines the title of notification windows spawned by dunst. (_NET_WM_NAME property).
There should be no need to modify this setting for regular use.
class (default: "Dunst")
Defines the class of notification windows spawned by dunst. (First part of WM_CLASS).
There should be no need to modify this setting for regular use.
force_xinerama (values: [true/false], default: false) (X11 only)
Use the Xinerama extension instead of RandR for multi-monitor support. This setting is
provided for compatibility with older nVidia drivers that do not support RandR and
using it on systems that support RandR is highly discouraged.
By enabling this setting dunst will not be able to detect when a monitor is connected
or disconnected which might break follow mode if the screen layout changes.
corner_radius (default: 0)
Define the corner radius in pixels. A corner radius of 0 will result in rectangular
shaped notifications.
By enabling this setting the outer border and the frame will be shaped. If you have
multiple notifications, the whole window is shaped, not every single notification.
To avoid the corners clipping the icon or text the corner radius will be automatically
lowered to half of the notification height if it exceeds it.
mouse_left/middle/right_click (values:
[none/do_action/close_current/close_all/context/context_all])
Defines action of mouse click. A touch input in Wayland acts as a mouse left click.
none
Don't do anything.
do_action (default for mouse_middle_click)
Invoke the action determined by the action_name rule. If there is no such action,
open the context menu.
open_url
If the notification has exactly one url, open it. If there are multiple ones, open
the context menu.
close_current (default for mouse_left_click)
Close current notification.
close_all (default for mouse_right_click)
Close all notifications.
context
Open context menu for the notification.
context_all
Open context menu for all notifications.
ignore_dbusclose (default: false)
Ignore the dbus closeNotification message. This is useful to enforce the timeout set
by dunst configuration. Without this parameter, an application may close the
notification sent before the user defined timeout.
Keyboard shortcuts (X11 only)
Keyboard shortcuts are defined in the following format: "Modifier+key" where the modifier
is one of ctrl,mod1,mod2,mod3,mod4 and key is any keyboard key.
Note that the keyboard shortcuts have been moved to the global section of the config for
consistency with other settings.
Alternatively you can also define shortcuts inside your window manager and bind them to
dunstctl(1) commands.
close
Specifies the keyboard shortcut for closing a notification.
close_all
Specifies the keyboard shortcut for closing all currently displayed notifications.
history
Specifies the keyboard shortcut for recalling a single notification from history.
context
Specifies the keyboard shortcut that opens the context menu.
Urgency sections
The urgency sections work in a similar way to rules and can be used to specify attributes
for the different urgency levels of notifications (low, normal, critical). Currently only
the background, foreground, hightlight, timeout, frame_color and icon attributes can be
modified.
The urgency sections are urgency_low, urgency_normal, urgency_critical for low, normal and
critical urgency respectively.
See the example configuration file for examples.
The flags for setting the colors notifications of different urgencies have been removed.
See issue #328 in the bug tracker for discussions (See REPORTING BUGS).
-li/ni/ci icon DEPRECATED
Defines the icon for low, normal and critical notifications respectively. This setting
will be replaced by the default_icon setting, so it's recommended to replace it as
soon as possible.
Where icon is a path to an image file containing the icon.
-lf/nf/cf color REMOVED
Defines the foreground color for low, normal and critical notifications respectively.
See COLORS for the value format.
-lb/nb/cb color REMOVED
Defines the background color for low, normal and critical notifications respectively.
See COLORS for the value format.
-lh/nh/ch color REMOVED
Defines the highlight color for low, normal and critical notifications respectively.
See COLORS for the value format.
-lfr/nfr/cfr color REMOVED
Defines the frame color for low, normal and critical notifications respectively.
See COLORS for more information
-lto/nto/cto secs REMOVED
Defines the timeout time for low, normal and critical notifications respectively. See
TIME FORMAT for valid times.
DUNSTCTL
Dunst now contains a command line control command that can be used to interact with it. It
supports all functions previously done only via keyboard shortcuts but also has a lot of
extra functionality. For more information, see dunstctl(1).
HISTORY
Dunst saves a number of notifications (specified by history_length) in memory. These
notifications can be recalled (i.e. redisplayed) by calling dunstctl history (see
dunstctl(1)). Whether these notifications will time out like if they have been just send
depends on the value of the sticky_history setting. Actions are invalidated once the
notification is closed, so you cannot execute that action when you bring back a
notification from history.
Past notifications are redisplayed in a first-in-last-out order, meaning that pressing the
history key once will bring up the most recent notification that had been closed/timed
out.
WAYLAND
Dunst has Wayland support since version 1.6.0. Because the Wayland protocol is more
focused on security, some things that are possible in X11 are not possible in Wayland.
Those differences are reflected in the configuration. The main things that change are
that dunst on Wayland cannot use global hotkeys (they are deprecated anyways, use
dunstctl).
Some dunst features on wayland might need your compositor to support a certain protocol.
Dunst will warn you if an optional feature isn't supported and will disable the
corresponding functionality.
Fullscreen detection works on wayland with some limitations (see fullscreen). If you want
notifications to appear over fullscreen windows, set layer = overlay in the global
options.
Note that the same limitations exist when using xwayland. If something doesn't quite work
in Wayland, please file a bug report. In the mean time, you can try if the X11 output does
work on wayland. Use force_xwayland = true for that.
If you have your dunst notifications on the same side of your display as your status bar,
you might notice that your notifications appear a bit higher or lower than on X11. This is
because the notification cannot be placed on top of your status bar. The notifications are
placed relative to your status bar, making them appear higher or lower by the height of
your status bar. We cannot do anything about that behavior.
RULES
Rules allow the conditional modification of notifications. They can be located in a
section with any name, even the special sections. The special sections do not allow
filters to be added, since they have implied filters by default.
'global'
No filters, matches all notifications.
'urgency_low', 'urgency_normal' and 'urgency_critical'
Matches low, normal or critical urgency respectively.
There are 2 parts in configuring a rule: Defining the filters that controls when a rule
should apply and then the actions that should be taken when the rule is matched. It's also
possible to not specify any filters, in which case the rule will match all notifications.
Rules are applied in order of appearance. Beware: if a notification is changed by a rule,
it may affect if it's being matched by a later rule.
filtering
With filtering rules you can match notifications to apply rules to only a subset of
notifications.
For filtering rules that filter based on strings you can use regular expressions. It's
recommended to set enable_posix_regex to true. You can then use the POSIX Extended
Regular Expression syntax:
https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Regular_Expressions/POSIX-Extended_Regular_Expressions.
Notifications can be matched for any of the following attributes.
"appname" (discouraged, see desktop_entry)
The name of the application as reported by the client. Be aware that the name can
often differ depending on the locale used.
"body"
The body of the notification
"category"
The category of the notification as defined by the notification spec. See
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/notification-spec/latest/ar01s06.html.
"desktop_entry"
GLib based applications export their desktop-entry name. In comparison to the
appname, the desktop-entry won't get localized.
"icon"
The icon of the notification in the form of a file path. Can be empty if no icon
is available or a raw icon is used instead. This setting is not to be confused
with the icon setting in the urgency section.
"match_transient"
Match if the notification has been declared as transient by the client or by some
other rule.
See "set_transient" for more details about this attribute.
"msg_urgency"
Matches the urgency of the notification as set by the client or by some other
rule.
"stack_tag"
Matches the stack tag of the notification as set by the client or by some other
rule.
See set_stack_tag for more information about stack tags.
"summary"
Matches the summary, 'title', of the notification.
"msg_urgency" is the urgency of the notification, it is named so to not conflict with
trying to modify the urgency.
Instead of the appname filter, it's recommended to use the desktop_entry filter.
To define a matching rule simply assign the specified value to the value that should
be matched, for example:
appname="notify-send"
Matches only messages that were send via notify-send. If multiple filter expressions
are present, all of them have to match for the rule to be applied (logical AND).
Shell-like globing is supported.
modifying
The following attributes can be overridden:
"background"
The background color of the notification. See COLORS for possible values.
"foreground"
The foreground color of the notification. See COLORS for possible values.
"highlight"
The highlight color of the notification. This color is used for coloring the
progress bar. See COLORS for possible values.
"format"
Equivalent to the "format" setting.
"frame_color"
The frame color color of the notification. See COLORS for possible values.
"fullscreen"
One of show, delay, or pushback.
This attribute specifies how notifications are handled if a fullscreen window is
focused. By default it's set to show so notifications are being shown.
Other possible values are delay: Already shown notifications are continued to be
displayed until they are dismissed or time out but new notifications will be held
back and displayed when the focus to the fullscreen window is lost.
Or pushback which is equivalent to delay with the difference that already existing
notifications are paused and hidden until the focus to the fullscreen window is
lost.
On wayland, if follow is set to mouse or keyboard, the output where the
notification is located cannot be determined. So dunst will delay or pushback if
any of the outputs is fullscreen. Since the fullscreen protocol is fairly new, you
will need a recent version of a compositor that supports it. At the time of
writing, you will need the git version of sway. See also layer to change if
notifications appear above fullscreen windows in Wayland.
Default: show
"new_icon"
Updates the icon of the notification, it should be a path or a name for a valid
image. This overrides the icon that was sent with dunstify or another notification
tool.
"icon_position" (values: [left/right/top/off], default: left)
Defines the position of the icon in the notification window. Setting it to off
disables icons.
"default_icon"
Sets the default icon of the notification, it should be a path or a name for a
valid image. This does not override the icon that was sent with dunstify or
another notification tool.
"set_stack_tag"
Sets the stack tag for the notification, notifications with the same (non-empty)
stack tag and the same appid will replace each-other so only the newest one is
visible. This can be useful for example in volume or brightness notifications
where you only want one of the same type visible.
The stack tag can be set by the client with the 'synchronous',
'private-synchronous' 'x-canonical-private-synchronous' or the 'x-dunst-stack-tag'
hints.
"set_transient"
Sets whether the notification is considered transient. Transient notifications
will bypass the idle_threshold setting.
By default notifications are _not_ considered transient but clients can set the
value of this by specifying the 'transient' hint when sending notifications.
"set_category"
Sets the category of the notification. See
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/notification-spec/latest/ar01s06.html for a
list of standard categories.
"timeout"
Equivalent to the "timeout" setting in the urgency sections.
"urgency"
This sets the notification urgency.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This currently DOES NOT re-apply the attributes from the urgency_*
sections. The changed urgency will only be visible in rules defined later. Use
"msg_urgency" to match it.
"skip_display"
Setting this to true will prevent the notification from being displayed initially
but will be saved in history for later viewing.
"history_ignore"
Setting this to true will display the notification initially, but stop it from
being recalled via the history.
"action_name"
Sets the name of the action to be invoked on do_action. If not specified, the
action set as default action or the only available action will be invoked.
Default: "default"
word_wrap (values: [true/false], default: true)
Specifies whether to wrap the text if the lines get longer than the maximum
notification width. If it's set to true, long lines will be broken into multiple
lines expanding the notification window height as necessary for them to fit. If
the text doesn't fit in the window, it will be ellipsize according to ellipsize.
ellipsize (values: [start/middle/end], default: middle)
Specifies where truncated lines should be ellipsized.
alignment (values: [left/center/right], default: left)
Defines how the text should be aligned within the notification.
hide_text (values: [true/false], default: false)
Setting this to true will skip displaying any text related to the notification.
The notification icon and progress bar will still be displayed. This option may be
useful for notifications where an icon or progress bar may be sufficient
information for the notification, such as audio volume or brightness level.
markup (values: [full/strip/no], default: no)
Defines how markup in notifications is handled.
It's important to note that markup in the format option will be parsed regardless
of what this is set to.
Possible values:
full
Allow a small subset of html markup in notifications
<b>bold</b>
<i>italic</i>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<u>underline</u>
For a complete reference see <https://docs.gtk.org/Pango/pango_markup.html>
strip
This setting is provided for compatibility with some broken clients that send
markup even though it's not enabled on the server.
Dunst will try to strip the markup but the parsing is simplistic so using this
option outside of matching rules for specific applications IS GREATLY
DISCOURAGED.
See RULES
no Disable markup parsing, incoming notifications will be treated as plain text.
Dunst will not advertise that it can parse markup if this is set as a global
setting.
icon_size (default: 32) Experimental
The size of the icon in pixels. This is commonly a multiple of 2, for example: 16,
32 or 64. This size is used for searching the right icon in icon_theme. If no
icon of the right size can be found, no icon is displayed. When passing a full
icon path to dunst the icon will be used even when it's not the right size. The
icon is then scaled to be of size icon_size.
This setting is experimental and not enabled by default. See
enable_recursive_icon_lookup for how to enable it.
As with the filtering attributes, each one corresponds to the respective notification
attribute to be modified.
As with filtering, to make a rule modify an attribute simply assign it in the rule
definition.
If the format is set to an empty string, the notification will not be suppressed.
SCRIPTING
Within rules you can specify a script to be run every time the rule is matched by
assigning the 'script' option to the name of the script to be run.
When the script is called details of the notification that triggered it will be passed via
environment variables. The following variables are available: DUNST_APP_NAME,
DUNST_SUMMARY, DUNST_BODY, DUNST_ICON_PATH, DUNST_URGENCY, DUNST_ID, DUNST_PROGRESS,
DUNST_CATEGORY, DUNST_STACK_TAG, DUNST_URLS, DUNST_TIMEOUT, DUNST_TIMESTAMP,
DUNST_DESKTOP_ENTRY, and DUNST_STACK_TAG.
Another, less recommended way to get notifcations details from a script is via command
line parameters. These are passed to the script in the following order: appname, summary,
body, icon_path, urgency.
Where DUNST_ICON_PATH or icon_path is the absolute path to the icon file if there is one.
DUNST_URGENCY or urgency is one of "LOW", "NORMAL" or "CRITICAL". DUNST_URLS is a newline-
separated list of urls associated with the notification.
Note that some variables may be empty.
If the notification is suppressed, the script will not be run unless always_run_scripts is
set to true.
If '~/' occurs at the beginning of the script parameter, it will get replaced by the
users' home directory. If the value is not an absolute path, the directories in the PATH
variable will be searched for an executable of the same name.
COLORS
Colors are interpreted as X11 color values. This includes both verbatim color names such
as "Yellow", "Blue", "White", etc as well as #RGB and #RRGGBB values.
You may also specify a transparency component in #RGBA or #RRGGBBAA format.
NOTE: '#' is interpreted as a comment, to use it the entire value needs to be in quotes
like so: separator_color="#123456"
NOTIFY-SEND
dunst is able to get different colors for a message via notify-send. In order to do that
you have to add a hint via the -h option. The progress value can be set with a hint, too.
All hints
See RULES for more detailed explanations for some options.
fgcolor: Foreground cololor
bgcolor: Background color
frcolor: Frame color
hlcolor: Highlight color
value: Progress value.
image-path: Icon name. This may be a path or just the icon name.
image-data: A stream of raw image data.
category: The category.
desktop-entry: The desktop entry.
transient: The transient value.
Examples
notify-send -h string:fgcolor:#ff4444
notify-send -h string:bgcolor:#4444ff -h string:fgcolor:#ff4444 -h string:frcolor:#44ff44
notify-send -h int:value:42 "Working ..."
ACTIONS
Dunst allows notifiers (i.e.: programs that send the notifications) to specify actions.
Dunst has support for both displaying indicators for these, and interacting with these
actions.
If "show_indicators" is true and a notification has an action, an "(A)" will be prepended
to the notification format. Likewise, an "(U)" is prepended to notifications with URLs. It
is possible to interact with notifications that have actions regardless of this setting,
though it may not be obvious which notifications HAVE actions.
The "context" keybinding is used to interact with these actions, by showing a menu of
possible actions. This feature requires "dmenu" or a dmenu drop-in replacement present.
Alternatively, you can invoke an action with a middle click on the notification. If there
is exactly one associated action, or one is marked as default, that one is invoked. If
there are multiple, the context menu is shown. The same applies to URLs when there are no
actions.
TIME FORMAT
A time can be any decimal integer value suffixed with a time unit. If no unit given,
seconds ("s") is taken as default.
Time units understood by dunst are "ms", "s", "m", "h" and "d".
Example time: "1000ms" "10m"
AUTHORS
Written by Sascha Kruse <knopwob@googlemail.com>
REPORTING BUGS
Bugs and suggestions should be reported on GitHub at
https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst/issues
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2013 Sascha Kruse and contributors (see LICENSE for licensing information)
If you feel that copyrights are violated, please send me an email.
SEE ALSO
dunst(1), dunstctl(1), dmenu(1), notify-send(1)