Monday, November 9, 2020

Desktop Notification for Audacious in Openbox environment

 First install libnotify, #pacman -S libnotify

Then notification-daemon and create The folders $XDG_DATA_HOME ; in there the folder dbus-1 and in there a folder services; in there the file org.freedesktop.Notifications.service

Edit with leafpad:

[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
Exec=/usr/lib/notification-daemon-1.0/notification-daemon
Now start the service:
 /usr/lib/notification-daemon-1.0/notification-daemon start &
Test with: notify-send "test"
Now add to /home/username/.config/openbox/autostart
a line with: start /usr/lib/notification-daemon-1.0/notification-daemon &

Be sure to have the Desktop Notifications plugin activated,In Services. Plugins.


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