Dunst: Sleep Notifications

[wpovell]

Is there an easy was to temporarily supress notifications? I would kill dunst, but then many applications (mainly firefox, chrome) default to using their own notifiers. My only thought was to supress all notifications but have a script that selectively resends them if not supressed. Seems hacky though...

Installation info

• Version: v1.2.0-213-g65043c0
• Install type: pacman
• Distro and version: Linux 4.15.11-1-ARCH

[bebehei]

There's an available hack:

Send a notification with its summary DUNST_COMMAND_PAUSE or DUNST_COMMAND_RESUME. It's nowhere documented and we clearly don't support it, but it works:tm:. The notifications sent between pause and resume will get delayed but won't get lost.

We're planning to replace it with a proper command line client (see #445). Expect it to get dropped at some point. (But we won't drop it when there is no replacement).

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Version: v1.2.0-213-g65043c0

You probably want to rebuild dunst. Just recently, we merged fullscreen detection support. So you can delay/block specific/all notifications via rules when you're in fullscreen.

https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst/blob/aa5ccd7dd75e7c563a2b57e964ab80bbbe73365e/dunstrc#L297-L308

[wpovell]

Thanks! Somewhat related, once paused, is there any easy way to detect if dunst has been muted? (no worries if not, I'll just create a tmp file).

[bebehei]

No, that's exactly the problem :joy:

Dunst is in need of a proper command line client, which can handle such a thing.

[vzaliva]

notify-send DUNST_COMMAND_PAUSE did it for me. Thanks!

[fwSmit]

This can now be done with dunstctl set-paused true as well. This issue can be closed.