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Hyprland and notifications with mako

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Hyprland and notifications with mako

Here’s another post on how to get started with Hyprland.

This time, we’ll see how to configure notifications with mako, a lightweight notification daemon for Wayland, which also works with Hyprland. (you might also want to consider and experiment with an alternative: dunst).

If you followed my previous tutorials, you have no notification daemon installed. You can verify that by running the following command (to issue a notification manually) and by looking at the resulting errors:

$ notify-send "hello"
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files

Let’s install “mako”:

sudo pacman -S mako

The nice thing about mako is that you don’t need to start it as a service manually: the first time a notification is emitted, mako will run automatically.

Let’s try to run the above notification command above, and this time, we see the pop-up, by default, on the right top corner of the screen:

hyprland-mako-1.png?resize=625%2C108&ssl=1

You have to click the pop-up to make it disappear.

Each time a program emits a notification, mako will show it. For example, Thunderbird, Firefox, and Chrome will emit notifications that mako will display.

Let’s do some further experiments by manually emitting notifications:

notify-send "hello world\!" "This is a message"

will lead to

hyprland-mako-2.png?resize=487%2C154&ssl=1

You can see that the first argument is the title and formatted in boldface.

You can have a look at mako’s manual (5) about its configuration file and where it is searched for:

man 5 mako
       mako - configuration file
DESCRIPTION
       The config file is located at <strong>~/.config/mako/config</strong> or at $XDG_CON‐
       FIG_HOME/mako/config. Option lines can be specified to configure mako like so:
           key=value
       Empty lines and lines that begin with # are ignored.

An example configuration, usable as a starting point, can be found here: https://github.com/emersion/mako/wiki/Example-configuration.

Each time you modify the configuration, you must reload mako by using one of the following commands:

killall mako
makoctl reload

With that example configuration, we can emit a few notifications with different “urgencies”, and see the different colors and positions of the boxes:

notify-send -u low "hello world\!" "This is a low urgency message"
notify-send -u normal "hello world\!" "This is a normal message"
notify-send -u critical \
  "This is a critical message\!" \
  "OK, that was just a demo ;)"

hyprland-mako-3.png?resize=538%2C401&ssl=1

If you use EndeavourOS, you will get notifications about new updates and when a reboot is required after a system update (the latter is a “critical” notification):

hyprland-mako-4.png?resize=504%2C202&ssl=1

That’s all! Not too difficult, isn’t it? 🙂

Stay tuned for more posts about Hyprland. 🙂

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