Sway: notify-send doesn't show anything

[kenny1847]

So, issue-name speaks for itself.
Probably it is wlc problem.
Probably I just cooking it wrong.

Using Fedora 25.

[ddevault]

Like i3, sway does not include a notification daemon. You need to use an external one like dunst.

[WhyNotHugo]

dunst doesn't really work well under sway:

• It's positioned on the upper left corner regardless of config.
• Global hotkeys don't work.
• Clicks pass through it to the window behind it.

This is probably due to the way wayland is designed (eg: can't grab global hotkey, etc).

Is there any workaround for this? Am I mistaken in thinking that sway needs to explicitly support notification daemons somehow (due to the placement overriding and global hotkey grabbing).

[tidux]

dunst also assumes DISPLAY=:0, so the provided systemd user service fails to run under Sway.

[albocc]

@WhyNotHugo Did you find a good alternative? I switched to Sway recently and noticed the same.

[norpol]

Since this is one of the early search results on Google:

via archwiki

mako — A lightweight notification daemon for Wayland; it currently works on Sway.

After installing just put into your sway config.

exec mako

[tidux]

I can confirm Mako works.