desktop-notify 1.2.0

Util for sending desktop notifications over dbus.

desktop_notify

Util for sending desktop notifications over dbus. Supports replace_id, hints and actions(mainloop required). Requires dbus-python.

Package usage

Basic notify:

notify = desktop_notify.Notify('summary', 'body')
notify.show()

Usage with server:

server = desktop_notify.Server('app_name')
notify = server.Notify('summary')
notify.show()

Configure notify.

You can setnotify options by default property setter notify.body = 'body' or using fluent setters:

notify.set_id(0)\
	.set_icon('icon')\
	.set_timeout(10000) # ms

Extra options

Hints

For workings with hints use this methods:

notify.set_hint(key, value)
notify.get_hint(key)
notify.del_hint(key)

Actions

For using actions and event you need to specify notify server mainloop.

You can add or delete action:

notify.add_action(desktop_notify.Action('label', callback))
notify.del_action(desktop_notify.Action('label', callback))

Also supported on_close event:

notify.set_on_close(callback)

Mainloop

dbus-python supports glib and qt mainloops.

server = desktop_notify.Server('app_name')\
	.init_mainloop_glib()\
	.init_mainloop_qt()\
	.set_mainloop(my_mainloop)

Console usage

usage: desktop-notify [--help] [--icon ICON] [--id REPLACE_ID] [--timeout TIMEOUT]
               [--hints key:value [key:value ...]]
               Summary [Body]

Send desktop notification. Returns created notification's id.

positional arguments:
  Summary               The summary text briefly describing the notification.
  Body                  The optional detailed body text. Can be empty.

optional arguments:
  --help                show this help message and exit
  --icon ICON, -i ICON  The optional program icon of the calling application.
                        Should be either a file path or a name in a
                        freedesktop.org-compliant icon theme.
  --id REPLACE_ID       An optional ID of an existing notification that this
                        notification is intended to replace.
  --timeout TIMEOUT, -t TIMEOUT
                        The timeout time in milliseconds since the display of
                        the notification at which the notification should
                        automatically close.
  --hints key:value [key:value ...], -h key:value [key:value ...]
                        use "--" to separate hints list from positional args