diff --git a/hosts/common/programs/deadd-notification-center/deadd.css b/hosts/common/programs/deadd-notification-center/deadd.css
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7a4b2124
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hosts/common/programs/deadd-notification-center/deadd.css
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+
+/* Notification center */
+
+.blurredBG, #main_window, .blurredBG.low, .blurredBG.normal {
+    background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1.0);
+}
+
+.noti-center.time {
+    font-size: 32px;
+}
+
+/* Notifications */
+
+.notification.content {
+    margin-left: 15px;
+    margin-right: 15px;
+}
+
+.title {
+    font-weight: bold;
+    font-size: 16px;
+}
+
+.appname {
+    font-size: 12px;
+}
+
+.time {
+    font-size: 12px;
+}
+
+.blurredBG.notification {
+    background:  rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.4);
+}
+
+.blurredBG.notification.critical {
+    background: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5);
+}
+
+.notificationInCenter.critical {
+    background: rgba(155, 0, 20, 0.5);
+}
+
+/* Labels */
+
+label {
+    color: #322;
+}
+
+label.notification {
+    color: #322;
+}
+
+label.critical {
+    color: #000;
+}
+.notificationInCenter label.critical {
+    color: #000;
+}
+
+
+/* Buttons */
+
+button {
+    background: transparent;
+    color: #322;
+    border-radius: 3px;
+    border-width: 0px;
+    background-position: 0px 0px;
+    text-shadow: none;
+}
+
+button:hover {
+    border-radius: 3px;
+    background: rgba(0, 20, 20, 0.2);
+    border-width: 0px;
+    border-top: transparent;
+    border-color: #f00;
+    color: #fee;
+}
+
+
+/* Custom Buttons */
+
+.userbutton {
+    background: rgba(20,0,0, 0.15);
+}
+
+.userbuttonlabel {
+    color: #222;
+    font-size: 12px;
+}
+
+.userbutton:hover {
+    background: rgba(20, 0, 0, 0.2);
+}
+
+.userbuttonlabel:hover {
+    color: #111;
+}
+
+button.buttonState1 {
+    background: rgba(20,0,0,0.5);
+}
+
+.userbuttonlabel.buttonState1 {
+    color: #fff;
+}
+
+button.buttonState1:hover {
+    background: rgba(20,0,0, 0.4);
+}
+
+.userbuttonlabel.buttonState1:hover {
+    color: #111;
+}
+
+button.buttonState2 {
+    background: rgba(255,255,255,0.3);
+}
+
+.userbuttonlabel.buttonState2 {
+    color: #111;
+}
+
+button.buttonState2:hover {
+    background: rgba(20,0,0, 0.3);
+}
+
+.userbuttonlabel.buttonState2:hover {
+    color: #000;
+}
+
+
+/* Images */
+
+image.deadd-noti-center.notification.image {
+    margin-left: 20px;
+}
diff --git a/hosts/common/programs/deadd-notification-center/deadd.yml b/hosts/common/programs/deadd-notification-center/deadd.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a6b8c30e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hosts/common/programs/deadd-notification-center/deadd.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,263 @@
+### Margins for notification-center/notifications
+margin-top: 0
+margin-right: 0
+
+### Margins for notification-center
+margin-bottom: 0
+
+### Width of the notification center/notifications in pixels.
+width: 360
+
+### Command to run at startup. This can be used to setup
+### button states.
+# startup-command: deadd-notification-center-startup
+
+### Monitor on which the notification center/notifications will be
+### printed. If "follow-mouse" is set true, this does nothing.
+monitor: 0
+
+### If true, the notification center/notifications will open on the
+### screen, on which the mouse is. Overrides the "monitor" setting.
+follow-mouse: false
+
+notification-center:
+  ### Margin at the top/right/bottom of the notification center in
+  ### pixels. This can be used to avoid overlap between the notification
+  ### center and bars such as polybar or i3blocks.
+  margin-top: 40
+  # margin-right: 0
+  # margin-bottom: 0
+
+  ### Width of the notification center in pixels.
+  # width: 500
+
+  ### Monitor on which the notification center will be printed. If
+  ### "follow-mouse" is set true, this does nothing.
+  # monitor: 0
+
+  ### If true, the notification center will open on the screen, on which
+  ### the mouse is. Overrides the "monitor" setting.
+  # follow-mouse: false
+
+  ### Notification center closes when the mouse leaves it
+  hide-on-mouse-leave: true
+
+  ### If newFirst is set to true, newest notifications appear on the top
+  ### of the notification center. Else, notifications stack, from top to
+  ### bottom.
+  new-first: true
+
+  ### If true, the transient field in notifications will be ignored,
+  ### thus the notification will be persisted in the notification
+  ### center anyways
+  ignore-transient: false
+
+  ### Custom buttons in notification center
+  buttons:
+    ### Numbers of buttons that can be drawn on a row of the notification
+    ### center.
+    # buttons-per-row: 5
+
+    ### Height of buttons in the notification center (in pixels).    
+    # buttons-height: 60
+
+    ### Horizontal and vertical margin between each button in the 
+    ### notification center (in pixels).
+    # buttons-margin: 2
+
+    ### Button actions and labels. For each button you must specify a
+    ### label and a command.
+    actions:
+      # - label: VPN
+      #   command: "sudo vpnToggle"
+      # - label: Bluetooth
+      #   command: bluetoothToggle
+      # - label: Wifi
+      #   command: wifiToggle
+      # - label: Screensaver
+      #   command: screensaverToggle
+      # - label: Keyboard
+      #   command: keyboardToggle
+
+notification:
+  ### If true, markup (<u>, <i>, <b>, <a>) will be displayed properly
+  use-markup: true
+
+  ### If true, html entities (&#38; for &, &#37; for %, etc) will be
+  ### parsed properly. This is useful for chromium-based apps, which
+  ### tend to send these in notifications.
+  parse-html-entities: true
+
+  dbus:
+
+    ### If noti-closed messages are enabled, the sending application
+    ### will know that a notification was closed/timed out. This can
+    ### be an issue for certain applications, that overwrite
+    ### notifications on status updates (e.g. Spotify on each
+    ### song). When one of these applications thinks, the notification
+    ### has been closed/timed out, they will not overwrite existing
+    ### notifications but send new ones. This can lead to redundant
+    ### notifications in the notification center, as the close-message
+    ### is send regardless of the notification being persisted.
+    send-noti-closed: false
+
+  app-icon:
+
+    ### If set to true: If no icon is passed by the app_icon parameter
+    ### and no application "desktop-entry"-hint is present, deadd will
+    ### try to guess the icon from the application name (if present).
+    guess-icon-from-name: true
+
+    ### The display size of the application icons in the notification 
+    ### pop-ups and in the notification center
+    icon-size: 20
+
+  image:
+
+    ### The maximal display size of images that are part of
+    ### notifications for notification pop-ups and in the notification
+    ### center
+    size: 100
+
+    ### The margin around the top, bottom, left, and right of
+    ### notification images.
+    margin-top: 15
+    margin-bottom: 15
+    margin-left: 15
+    margin-right: 0
+
+  ### Apply modifications to certain notifications:
+  ### Each modification rule needs a "match" and either a "modify" or
+  ### a "script" entry.
+  modifications:
+  ### Match:
+  ### Matches the notifications against these rules. If all of the
+  ### values (of one modification rule) match, the "modify"/"script"
+  ### part is applied.
+  # - match:
+      ### Possible match criteria:
+      # title: "Notification title"
+      # body: "Notification body"
+      # time: "12:44"
+      # app-name: "App name"
+      # urgency: "low" # "low", "normal" or "critical"
+
+    # modify:
+      ### Possible modifications
+      # title: "abc"
+      # body: "abc"
+      # app-name: "abc"
+      # app-icon: "file:///abc.png"
+      ### The timeout has three special values:
+      ### timeout: 0 -> don't time out at all
+      ### timeout: -1 -> use default timeout
+      ### timeout: 1 -> don't show as pop-up
+      ### timeout: >1 -> milliseconds until timeout
+      # timeout: 1
+      # margin-right: 10
+      # margin-top: 10
+      # image: "file:///abc.png"
+      # image-size: 10
+      # transient: true
+      # send-noti-closed: false
+      ### Remove action buttons from notifications
+      # remove-actions: true
+      ### Set the action-icons hint to true, action labels will then
+      ### be intergreted as GTK icon names
+      # action-icons: true
+      ### List of actions, where the even elements (0, 2, ...) are the
+      ### action name and the odd elements are the label
+      # actions:
+      #   - previous
+      #   - media-skip-backward
+      #   - play
+      #   - media-playback-start
+      #   - next
+      #   - media-skip-forward
+      ### Action commands, where the keys (e.g. "play") is the action
+      ### name and the value is a program call that should be executed
+      ### on action. Prevents sending of the action to the application.
+      # action-commands:
+      #   play: playerctl play-pause
+      #   previous: playerctl previous
+      #   next: playerctl next
+
+      ### Add a class-name to the notification container, that can be
+      ### used for specific styling of notifications using the
+      ### deadd.css file
+      # class-name: "abc"
+
+  # - match:
+      # app-name: "Chromium"
+
+    ### Instead of modifying a notification directly, a script can be
+    ### run, which will receive the notification as JSON on STDIN. It
+    ### is expected to return JSON/YAML configuration that defines the
+    ### modifications that should be applied. Minimum complete return
+    ### value must be '{"modify": {}, "match": {}}'. Always leave the "match"
+    ### object empty (technical reasons, i.e. I am lazy).
+    # script: "linux-notification-center-parse-chromium"
+  - match:
+      app-name: "Spotify"
+    modify:
+      image-size: 80
+      timeout: 1
+      send-noti-closed: true
+      class-name: "Spotify"
+      action-icons: true
+      actions:
+        - previous
+        - media-skip-backward
+        - play
+        - media-playback-start
+        - next
+        - media-skip-forward
+      action-commands:
+        play: playerctl play-pause
+        previous: playerctl previous
+        next: playerctl next
+
+  # - match:
+  #     title: Bildschirmhelligkeit
+  #   modify:
+  #     image-size: 60
+  popup:
+
+    ### Default timeout used for notifications in milli-seconds.  This can
+    ### be overwritten with the "-t" option (or "--expire-time") of the
+    ### notify-send command.
+    default-timeout: 10000
+
+    ### Margin above/right/between notifications (in pixels). This can
+    ### be used to avoid overlap between notifications and a bar such as
+    ### polybar or i3blocks.
+    margin-top: 50
+    margin-right: 50
+    margin-between: 20
+
+    ### Defines after how many lines of text the body will be truncated. 
+    ### Use 0 if you want to disable truncation.
+    max-lines-in-body: 3
+
+    ### Determines whether the GTK widget that displays the notification body
+    ### in the notification popup will be hidden when empty. This is especially
+    ### useful for transient notifications that display a progress bar.
+    # hide-body-if-empty: false
+
+    ### Monitor on which the notifications will be
+    ### printed. If "follow-mouse" is set true, this does nothing.
+    # monitor: 0
+
+    ### If true, the notifications will open on the
+    ### screen, on which the mouse is. Overrides the "monitor" setting.
+    # follow-mouse: false
+
+    click-behavior:
+
+      ### The mouse button for dismissing a popup. Must be either "mouse1", 
+      ### "mouse2", "mouse3", "mouse4", or "mouse5"
+      dismiss: mouse1
+
+      ### The mouse button for opening a popup with the default action.
+      ### Must be either "mouse1", "mouse2", "mouse3", "mouse4", or "mouse5"
+      default-action: mouse3
diff --git a/hosts/common/programs/deadd-notification-center/default.nix b/hosts/common/programs/deadd-notification-center/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..63322ca2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hosts/common/programs/deadd-notification-center/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# docs are via README only:
+# - <https://github.com/phuhl/linux_notification_center>
+# reload config:
+# - `notify-send a --hint=boolean:deadd-notification-center:true --hint=string:type:reloadStyle`
+# toggle visibility:
+# - `kill -s USR1 $(pidof deadd-notification-center)`
+# clear notifications:
+# - `notify-send a --hint=boolean:deadd-notification-center:true --hint=string:type:clearInCenter`
+# set state of user button 0 to "highlighted" (true)
+# - `notify-send a --hint=boolean:deadd-notification-center:true --hint=int:id:0 --hint=boolean:state:true --hint=type:string:buttons`
+{ ... }:
+{
+  sane.programs.deadd-notification-center = {
+    fs.".config/deadd/deadd.css".symlink.target = ./deadd.css;
+    fs.".config/deadd/deadd.yml".symlink.target = ./deadd.yml;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/hosts/common/programs/default.nix b/hosts/common/programs/default.nix
index db0e24e6..9bf5ee41 100644
--- a/hosts/common/programs/default.nix
+++ b/hosts/common/programs/default.nix
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
     ./conky
     ./cozy.nix
     ./dconf.nix
+    ./deadd-notification-center
     ./dialect.nix
     ./dino.nix
     ./element-desktop.nix
diff --git a/hosts/common/programs/sway/sway-config b/hosts/common/programs/sway/sway-config
index 05834fe5..a781e286 100644
--- a/hosts/common/programs/sway/sway-config
+++ b/hosts/common/programs/sway/sway-config
@@ -155,6 +155,14 @@ for_window [app_id="abaddon"] move container to workspace number 1
 # desirable primarily to avoid slooow reflows when another app is opened. but also nice to have the book title rendered.
 for_window [app_id="KOReader"] border normal
 
+for_window [app_id="deadd-notification-center"] {
+  border none
+  # anchor it to the right edge of the screen
+  # hardcoding the width here: keep in sync
+  move position 100 ppt 0 ppt
+  move left 360
+}
+
 ### displays
 ## DESKTOP
 output "LG Electronics LG ULTRAWIDE 0x00004E94" {