How to configure appearence on the fly ?

[ghost]

Issue description

I've set everything on dunstrc config to show on top left for all notifications. But I need volume level notifications to be exactly in the middle of the screen. Is it possible ?

Currently I'm using these bindings:

set $showvol notify-send -t 1500 'VOLUME' -h int:value:$(pulsemixer --get-volume | awk '{print $1}')
bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume $run pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +10% && $showvol
bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume $run pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -10% && $showvol

But they show at the configured position. I wanna set it to middle of the screen on the fly, unlike the rest of the notifications that appear at the corner.

Installation info

• Version: 1.9.0
• Install type: pacman -S dunst
• Window manager / Desktop environment: i3-gaps

Minimal dunstrc

# Dunstrc here

[apprehensions]

Dunst has the ability to set overrdues or settings for a notification with a specific app name:

dunst/dunstrc

Line 346 in 53a2ff1

# and you can override the

Unfortunately doesn't seem you can set origin here.

[ghost]

I was just wondering about the exact same thing. Allowing a different origin and offset for certain notifications would be great. It feels much more natural to me to have volume, microphone and brightness notifications at bottom center.

Related: #1106

[voguelike]

this feature has been implemented by someone's fork here: https://github.com/FT-Labs/phyOS-dunst

you can modify the origin of a notification through dunstify.
it would be nice to have this integrated into the main version.

[apprehensions]

@voguelike , that feature is for Xresources configuration.

[voguelike]

i'm not sure what you mean, here's a video showing off the dynamic origin feature from that fork.
https://youtu.be/Ogs_bKH2ntQ?t=307

[apprehensions]

It reloads Xresources configuration and not the configuration file...

[voguelike]

i take it that you didn't look at the video? it has absolutely nothing to do with xresources.

the feature is in src/dbus.c at line 555

g_variant_iter_next(&i, "s", &n->appname);
        g_variant_iter_next(&i, "u", &n->id);
        g_variant_iter_next(&i, "s", &n->iconname);
        g_variant_iter_next(&i, "s", &n->summary);
        g_variant_iter_next(&i, "s", &n->body);
        g_variant_iter_next(&i, "^a&s", &actions);
        g_variant_iter_next(&i, "@a{?*}", &hints);
        g_variant_iter_next(&i, "i", &timeout);

                /* Change notification position */
        if (!strcmp(n->appname, "top-center"))
                settings.origin = ORIGIN_TOP_CENTER;
        else if (!strcmp(n->appname, "top-left"))
                settings.origin = ORIGIN_TOP_LEFT;
        else if (!strcmp(n->appname, "bottom-right"))
                settings.origin = ORIGIN_BOTTOM_RIGHT;
        else if (!strcmp(n->appname, "bottom-center"))
                settings.origin = ORIGIN_BOTTOM_CENTER;
        else if (!strcmp(n->appname, "bottom-left"))
                settings.origin = ORIGIN_BOTTOM_LEFT;
        else if (!strcmp(n->appname, "left-center"))
                settings.origin = ORIGIN_LEFT_CENTER;
        else if (!strcmp(n->appname, "center"))
                settings.origin = ORIGIN_CENTER;
        else
                settings.origin = ORIGIN_TOP_RIGHT;

        gsize num = 0;
        while (actions[num]) {
                if (actions[num+1]) {
                        g_hash_table_insert(n->actions,
                                        g_strdup(actions[num]),
                                        g_strdup(actions[num+1]));
                        num+=2;
                } else {
                        LOG_W("Odd length in actions array. Ignoring element: %s", actions[num]);
                        break;
                }
        }

and here is that same spot in the normal version for comparison

 g_variant_iter_next(&i, "s", &n->appname);
        g_variant_iter_next(&i, "u", &n->id);
        g_variant_iter_next(&i, "s", &n->iconname);
        g_variant_iter_next(&i, "s", &n->summary);
        g_variant_iter_next(&i, "s", &n->body);
        g_variant_iter_next(&i, "^a&s", &actions);
        g_variant_iter_next(&i, "@a{?*}", &hints);
        g_variant_iter_next(&i, "i", &timeout);

        gsize num = 0;
        while (actions[num]) {
                if (actions[num+1]) {
                        g_hash_table_insert(n->actions,
                                        g_strdup(actions[num]),
                                        g_strdup(actions[num+1]));
                        num+=2;
                } else {
                        LOG_W("Odd length in actions array. Ignoring element: %s", actions[num]);
                        break;
                }
        }

[apprehensions]

FT-Labs/phyOS-dunst@018d965

[voguelike]

oh nice i didn't see that, it's a pretty neat feature but how does it relate to changing the origin of the notifications? i don't know what it has to do with this which is a completely different thing.

[bynect]

I think the main problem is that dunst uses a single window so you can't have multiple notifications at different origins at the same time.

#1018

[bynect]

for future reference now dunst supports hot reloading #1350