SwayNotificationCenter

A simple notification daemon with a gui built for Sway (potentially any wm with wlroots).

Features

• Keyboard shortcuts
• Notification body markup with image support
• A panel to view previous notifications
• Show album art for notifications like Spotify
• Do not disturb
• Click notification to execute default action
• Show alternative notification actions
• Customization through a CSS file
• Trackpad/mouse gesture to close notification
• The same features as any other basic notification daemon
• Basic configuration through a JSON config file
• Hot-reload config through swaync-client

Planned Features

• Slick animations 😎
• Other build scripts than a PKGBUILD (debian and/or RHEL systems)

Install

Arch: The package is available on the AUR

Other:

meson build
ninja -C build
meson install -C build

Sway Usage

# Notification Daemon
exec swaync

# Toggle notification panel
bindsym $mod+Shift+n exec swaync-client -t -sw

Run

To start the daemon (remember to kill any other notification daemon before running)

./build/src/swaync

To toggle the panel

./build/src/swaync-client -t

To reload the config

./build/src/swaync-client -R

Notification Panel Shortcuts

• Up/Down: Navigate notifications
• Home: Navigate to the latest notification
• End: Navigate to the oldest notification
• Escape/Caps_Lock: Close notification panel
• Return: Execute default action or close notification if none
• Delete/BackSpace: Close notification
• C: Close all notifications
• D: Toggle Do Not Disturb
• Buttons 1-9: Execute alternative actions

Configuring

The main config file is located in /etc/xdg/swaync/config.json. Copy it over to your .config/swaync/ folder to customize without needing root access.

To reload the config, you'll need to run swaync-client --reload-config

• positionX: left, right or center
• positionY: top or bottom
• timeout: uint (Any positive number). The notification timeout for notifications with normal priority
• timeout-low: uint (any positive number without decimals). The notification timeout for notifications with low priority
• timeout-critical: uint (any positive number without decimals, 0 to disable). The notification timeout for notifications with critical priority
• keyboard-shortcuts: true or false. If control center should use keyboard shortcuts
• image-visibility: always, when-available or never. Notification image visiblilty
• transition-time: uint (Any positive number, 0 to disable). The notification animation duration
• notification-window-width: uint (Any positive number). Width of the notification in pixels

The main CSS style file is located in /etc/xdg/swaync/style.css. Copy it over to your .config/swaync/ folder to customize without needing root access.

Screenshots

I wonder how this would look with some blur 🤔