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Found a website to do with twmn here http://blog.yjl.im/2011/09/notification … n-new.html would any of this work? because I would love to be able to pipe system notifications to it.

EDIT: I appear to be answering my own question lol but its a good little archive for anyone stumbing in future. Now when I run cb-fortune or xfce4-power-manager for example it runs along my scrotwm bar it even shows statlers face =]

Last edited by xeNULL (2011-10-24 03:56:55)

have not used it but it looks very nice (and minimal) indeed. do you need to be using a tiling WM for this to work, or will it work in Openbox as well?
the Arch-link is not working for me btw.

nice, this looks loads nicer than the notify-send-stuff. i never liked those Ubuntu-like overlay-thingies.
so i'll try this out, although probably the first thing i'll kill is the 'nice bounce effect', as i think it is redundant. to each his own!

anyway thanks for posting this i'll check it out.

I'll have to try this out when I get home.

some more things i learned.

you can use a layout-file for individual notifications, like so:

twmnc -l "twmn_volume.conf"

put this layout-file in the same directory as your regular twmn.conf, which is ~/.config/twmn

now, you cannot have the layout-file completely replace the regular twmn.conf. for example, when you provide different in/out-animations in your layout-file, twmn will still use those specified in the twmn.conf file. the same goes for the screen position of the notification afaik. you can of course change things like font, color and size of the notification.

nonetheless, this layout-file could be very nice to use for, for example, a warning notification displayed in red or something.

Last edited by rhowaldt (2011-10-30 12:24:10)

no problem man, glad you find them useful!

^ yes, i cannot imagine i hadn't thought of doing that after implementing those vol-up+vol-down scripts! cool, thanks for that doomicide.

edit: tried it out, modified it a bit for my own situation, and it works great.

i did find something a bit strange though, not sure if it is a bug or something, see if you replicate this.
when i already have a notification onscreen, in this case the 'Vol. Mute', and i then proceed to use my 'Vol. Up', it suddenly bounces, while i've set it in the QT-codes not to bounce. - thinking while writing this: could it have to do with the 'id' codes? let's try it out! - yes it does!
so, when you set the 'id'-codes the same for all your notifications, it treats them as a single notification, so to speak. when you use different id-codes, it does 'transitions' between them. i'm checking out the config file to see if i can find anything to turn off that behavior.

Last edited by rhowaldt (2011-11-11 16:52:07)

I can reproduce this, but when using the same id, you'd have to modify the volup/down scripts to test if volume is muted or else it will increase/decrease volumen even though it's muted. This could be even more confusing if you allow it to change the notification.

yeah i noticed that. subsequently i've stared at my volume-icon for a good minute, deciding whether this behavior was a problem to me, and i figured it wasn't. it is kinda counter-intuitive to be able to change the volume while it is muted, but you can pre-decide on a certain volume before unmuting, which makes sense as well. so i left it like it is.

^ aah, i misunderstood you! yes, in that case, good thinking!

i wanted to implement this today, so i made a slight modification of Doomicide's improved volume up/down scripts, to remove code-repetition. so the 'case' only changes a variable, so the twmnc-code is only used once.

#!/bin/bash
# twmn volume up
uparrow=$(echo -e "\xE2\x96\xB2")
STAT=$(amixer -c 0 sget Master | grep -F -e "[on]" -e "[off]" | cut -d ' ' -f 8 | tr -d [:punct:] )
case $STAT in
    on)
        state="$uparrow"
        ;;
    off)
        state="(M) $uparrow"
        ;;
esac
amixer -c 0 sset Master 2%+ > /dev/null
twmnc -l "twmn_volume.conf" -c "$state `amixer -c 0 get Master | grep -oe '[[:digit:]]*%'`" -t 'Vol. ' --sc "" --id 99

(volume down omitted because, well it is almost exactly the same)

Last edited by rhowaldt (2011-12-04 17:00:02)