Dunst: Raw icon takes priority over icon set via rules

[jonathashenriques]

Hi, guys

I'm having a awkward error using Dunst and Spotify. Seems like dunst is not recognizing that Spotify is set up to use a custom icon. I use a small script to get the music album art from Spotify and use it as an icon with Spotify notification function and Dunst, but now i just can't get it to work. It was working all the year but now, when i exec dunst -print, it returns raw_icon set: true and not raw_icon set: false and when the notification pop up only a giant album art appears.

How it looks like:

How it should look like:

Here's my dunstrc:

DUNST CONFIGURATION FILE

[global]
alignment = left
allow_markup = yes
bounce_freq = 0
browser = /usr/bin/google-chrome-beta -new-tab
dmenu = /usr/bin/dmenu -p dunst
follow = mouse
font = Roboto 7
format = "%s\n%b"
geometry = "300x10-15+37"
horizontal_padding = 8
icon_folders = /usr/share/icons/Notifications
icon_position = left
idle_threshold = 120
ignore_newline = no
indicate_hidden = yes
line_height = 5
monitor = 0
padding = 6
separator_color = auto
separator_height = 0
show_age_threshold = -1
show_indicators = no
sort = yes
startup_notification = false
sticky_history = no
transparency = 40
word_wrap = yes

[frame]
color = "#ffffff"
width = 0

[shortcuts]
close = ctrl+space
close_all = ctrl+shift+space
context = ctrl+shift+period
history = ctrl+grave

[urgency_critical]
background = "#ffffff"
foreground = "#262626"
timeout = 0

[urgency_low]
background = "#ffffff"
foreground = "#262626"
timeout = 5

[urgency_normal]
background = "#ffffff"
foreground = "#262626"
timeout = 5

[AN2Linux]
appname = AN2Linux
format = "%s\n%b"
timeout = 10

[Discord]
appname = Discord Canary
format = "Discord\n%s\n%b"
new_icon = Discord

[Dropbox]
appname = Dropbox
format = "Dropbox\n%s\n%b"
new_icon = Dropbox
timeout = 0

[ImageMagick]
appname = ImageMagick
format = "System Notification\n%s\n%b"
timeout = 0

[Mozilla Firefox]
appname = Firefox
format = "Mozilla Firefox\n%s\n%b"
new_icon = Mozilla Firefox
timeout = 0

[NCMPCPP]
appname = NCMPCPP
format = "Now Playing\n%s\n%b"
timeout = 0

[Redshift]
appname = Redshift
format = "System Notification\n%s\n%b"
new_icon = Redshift
timeout = 0

[Spotify]
appname = Spotify
format = "Now Playing\n%s\n%b"
new_icon = Spotify
timeout = 0

[Transmission]
appname = Transmission
format = "Transmission\n%s\n%b"
new_icon = Transmission
timeout = 0

[UpdateChecker]
appname = UpdateChecker
format = "System Notification\n%s\n%b"
new_icon = UpdateChecker
timeout = 0

[Volume]
appname = Volume
format = "System Notification\n%s\n%b"
new_icon = Volume
timeout = 0

[tsipinakis]

Seems like dunst is not recognizing that Spotify is set up to use a custom icon

Looks like the same icon to me, just different dimensions.

Right before the last release I changed the default of the max_icon_size setting to 0 to preserve backwards compatibility. Setting it back to 32 should be what you need to scale the icon.

PS: You can use code blocks to make configuration files much more readable :)

[jonathashenriques]

Yeah, is the same icon, but is giant! I wish i could set max_icon_size to 40, because is the dimension that i use in my script. Can i do it ?

[tsipinakis]

I don't see why not? As mentioned in the docs max_icon_size is the maximum size in pixels for the icon, if any of the axis is larger than that it will be scaled down to match that size.

[jonathashenriques]

So, how can i do it ? Haha

[tsipinakis]

You can't (currently) set it as a rule if that's what you're asking, just add max_icon_size = 40 in the global section of your config file.

[jonathashenriques]

Ok, now the icon is 40x40, however it still showing up as raw_icon set: true, what makes my script do not work the right way, because i use a little bit the imagemagick tool before sending the notification to add that line (separator) between the icon and the text.

[tsipinakis]

I pushed a fix to the 339-icon-priority branch. Can you compile and confirm that it works?

[jonathashenriques]

I compile it via aur, but seems like is not working yet

[tsipinakis]

You'll need to download the git repository to test it
Example:

git clone https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst
cd dunst
git checkout 339-icon-priority
make
./dunst

[jonathashenriques]

Oh, sorry! Now it's working very well! Thank you very much! Will it be avaliable on the aur repository ?

[tsipinakis]

Awesome, merged to master. It'll be available on the aur the next time the maintainer updates the package.

[Narrat]

No need for an update from the maintainer.
VCS pkgbuilds pull latest version on running makepkg (unless #commit is added to the source line). Purely cosmetic what the maintainer is doing there.

And with adding #branch=branchname to the source line, one can create a package for that specific branch