xfce4-notifyd - Xfce Notification service
Introduction
Xfce4-notifyd is a notification service for the Xfce Desktop that implements most of the “server-side” portion of the Freedesktop desktop notifications specification. Applications that wish to pop up a notification bubble in
a standard way can make use of the xfce4-notifyd service by sending standard messages over D-Bus using the org.freedesktop.Notifications interface. Read the specification here.
Apart from the notification server, a panel-plugin is included which shows recent notifications in a dropdown menu in the Xfce Panel.
- Preferences Dialog – Customize your notification settings
- Specification implementation – Which parts of which specifications are implemented and supported
- Theming Examples – How to create a notification theme
Settings
Several new features have been added in Xfce's Notification service, including a notifications log, the possibility to disable notifications per application, a global 'Do Not Disturb' mode, which inhibits all notifications, and finally a new animation ('slide out').
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Panel Plugin
A new panel plugin was added which provides quick access to both the 'Do Not Disturb' mode as well as the log of recent notifications.
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Latest Release
- xfce4-notifyd 0.9.7 released (2025/02/17 00:46)xfce4-notifyd 0.9.7 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-notifyd/0.9/xfce4-notifyd-0.9.7.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-notifyd/0.9/xfce4-notifyd-0.9.7.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/xfce4-notifyd/0.9/xfce4-notifyd-0.9.7.tar.bz2?sha256 What is xfce4-notifyd? ====================== Xfce4-notifyd is a simple, visually-appealing notification daemon for Xfce that implements the Freedesktop.org Desktop Notifications specification. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/notifyd/start Release notes for 0.9.7 ======================= - meson-build: Use SPDX license expression - meson-build: Update debug/optimization flag management - build: Add meson build files to autotools generated tarball - Do a full windowing system support check on startup - Fix string leaks in notification_plugin_menu_new - Fix button padding for top-position notifications with the XP-Balloon theme - Fix class names and rule application. - Add XP-Balloon theme to build system - Add XP-Balloon theme - Add positioning style classes to XfceNotifyWindow - Add gitlab issue template - Add more compiler flags to the meson build - Terminate cleanly on SIGQUIT - Shut up warning about maybe uninitialized variable - Meson build updates - Add false-positives file for scan-build - Fix two memory leaks - Quiet a gcc static analyzer warning about NULL deref - Toplevel meson.build update - Clean up clang warnings - Translation Updates: Albanian, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
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