NAME
dunst - dmenu-ish universal notification system
SYNOPSIS
dunst [-b] [-ne l/r] [-fn font] [-nb color] [-nf color] [-to secs]
[-key key] [-mod modifier]
DESCRIPTION
dunst is a lightweight notification-daemon for the libnotify. It can
also be used as a standalone notification system. Dnotify displays mes‐
sages received via dbus or as commandline argument in a fashion similar
to dmenu and additionally prints them to stdout. Notifications can be
closed via mouseclick.
OPTIONS
-h/--help
display help message.
-b dunst appears at the bottom of the screen.
-ne l/r
Don't expand popup across the screen and put it in the [l]eft or
[r]ight edge
-fn/ font
defines the font or font set used.
-nb/-bg color
defines the background color. #RGB, #RRGGBB and X color names
are supported.
-nf/-fg color
defines the background color.
-msg msg
display msg instead of listening to notifications. This option
can be used multiple times.
-to secs
display each message for secs seconds.
-key key
close window by pressing key [a,b,space,Return etc.] (should be
used in combination with -mod).
-mod modifier
defines the modifier for the key. Available modifiers are:
ctrl,shift,mod1 (usually the alt-key),mod2,mod3,mod4 (usually
windows key). This option can be used multiple times to combine
modifiers.
AUTHOR
written by Sascha Kruse <knopwob@googlemail.com>
COPYRIGHT
Parts of the code are taken from dmenu (especially draw.c and draw.h).
Read LICENCE.dmenu and look at http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu.
Some snippets in dunst_dbus.c are taken from twmn. See
http://github.com/sboli/twmn.
If you feel that copyrights are violated, please send me an e-mail to
knopwob@googlemail.com.
SEE also
dwm(1), dmenu(1), twmn(1), notify-send(1)