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===================================================================================
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Release Notes For v1.3.0
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===================================================================================
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Version 1.3 is supposed to be fully backwards compatible with 1.2.
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For users:
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* Behavioural changes
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Dunst respects the timeout with millisecond accuracy now. Notifications with
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a one second timeout are not shown up to three seconds.
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Additionally you can specify timeout values in milliseconds, seconds, minutes,
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hours or days using the ms, s, h, or d suffix in the config value
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respectively.
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Transient notifications time out ignoring the `idle_threshold` setting and are not
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saved in history. This can be overridden with a rule containing `set_transient = no`.
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In the same vein there is the `match_transient` condition to match transient
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notifications via rules.
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A prefixed tilde (`~/`) in path settings (browser, dmenu, script) is interpreted as the
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home folder of the user.
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* Configuration Options
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`icon_folders` got deprecated and renamed to `icon_path`. `icon_folders` is still
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supported, but will get removed in future.
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The option `ellipsize` got introduced. It controls where to ellipsize the text of
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an overlong notification if `word_wrap = no`.
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For maintainers:
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* Dependencies
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The GTK3+ dependency got removed. Instead of this gdk-pixbuf is required
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explicitly. This had been a transient dependency before.
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In the Makefile, libxrandr is now specified to require version 1.5 or newer.
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The dependency on libxrandr >= 1.5 is not new, Dunst 1.2.0 required it too
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but there was no active check for it.
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* Installation process
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The internals of dunst's make installation process have slightly changed. The
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install routine won't install the service files for DBus and systemd in a hardcoded
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subdirectory of $PREFIX. It'll now query the `dbus-1` and `systemd` pkg-config
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packages for those paths and will put it there.
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To overwrite the pkg-config values, you can manually specify another path.
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Use `SERVICEDIR_(DBUS|SYSTEMD)` vars as parameters to your make calls.
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For all introduced variables, see [the README.md].
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* Portability
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GNU-specific functions have been disabled to make dunst portable to nongnu libc's.
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For a full list of changes see [CHANGELOG.md].
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===================================================================================
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Release Notes For v1.2.0
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===================================================================================
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After about 3 years of inactivity, dunst is back under active development.
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Version 1.2 is supposed to be fully backwards compatible with 1.1 but due to
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the number of changes and the time since the last release there may be some
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overlooked breakages. If one is found it should be reported to the bug tracker.
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For users:
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* Markup
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The `allow_markup` setting has been deprecated in favour of `markup` which
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is a multi-value setting that can be used to control much more accurately
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how markup in notifications should be handled. Currently it only supports
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`no`, `strip` and `full` as values but it is planned to be expanded soon.
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To preserve backwards compatibility, `allow_markup` is still supported but
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users are encouraged to update their configuration files since it will be
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removed after a few major releases.
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* DPI handling
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The DPI value used is now retrieved from the `Xft.dpi` X resource if
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available. If not, the default value 96 will be used.
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Additionally, as an experiment a per-monitor dpi setting, which tries to
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calculate an acceptable dpi values for each monitor, has been added to the
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experimental section of the configuration file.
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* RandR and Xinerama
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Dunst switched from using the Xinerama extension to provide multi-monitor
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support to using the more modern RandR extension. While this change won't
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affect the majority of users, some legacy drivers do not support RandR. In
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that case, the `force_xinerama` option was added as a way to fall back to
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the old method.
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The downside of forcing Xinerama to be used is that dunst won't be able to
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detect when a monitor is added or removed meaning that follow mode might
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break if the screen layout changes.
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* Frame settings
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All the settings in the frame section of the configuration file have been
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deprecated and have been moved into the global section. The `color` and `size`
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settings became `frame_color` and `frame_size` respectively. As with
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`allow_markup`, the old format still works but it'll be removed in one of the
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next major releases.
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* Deprecation of urgency-specific command line flags
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The urgency specific command line flags (`-li, -ni, -ci, -lf, -nf, -cf, -lb,
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-nb, -cb, -lfr, -nfr, -cfr, -lto, -nto, -cto`) have been deprecated with no
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plan for a replacement. If you rely on them please respond to issue #328 on
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the bug tracker with your use case.
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For maintainers:
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* The project homepage has been changed to https://dunst-project.org
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* The main repository has been changed to https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst
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* Dependency changes:
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- Dependency on libraries that were unused in the code but were mentioned as
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dependencies has been dropped. Dunst no longer depends on: libfreetype,
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libxft and libxext.
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- Added dependency on libxradnr and libgtk2.0.
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For a full list of changes see CHANGELOG.md.
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===================================================================================
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Release Notes For v1.0.0
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===================================================================================
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PACKAGE MAINTAINERS:
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There are new dependencies introduced with this version:
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*glib
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*pango/cairo
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* The drawing backend was moved from Xlib to Cairo/Pango.
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This change requires some user intervention since Pango
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uses different font strings. For example "Monospace-12"
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becomes "Monospace 12". Font sizes might also get interpreted
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differently.
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* Markup
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Markup within the notification can be interpreted by pango.
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Examples are <i>italic</i> and <b>bold</b>. If the Markup
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can't be parsed by pango, the tags are stripped from the
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notification and the text is displayed as plain text. An error
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message gets printed to stdout describing why the markup could
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not be parsed.
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To make use of markup the option allow_markup must be set in dunstrc.
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If this option is not set, dunst falls back to the old behaviour
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(stripping all tags from the text and display plain text).
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* Actions are now supported.
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If a client adds an action to a notification this gets indicated
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by an (A) infront of the notification. In this case the
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context menu shortcut can be used to invoke this action.
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* Indicator for URLs.
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If dunst detects an URL within the notification this gets indicated
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by an (U) infront of the notification. As with actions the URL can
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be opened with the context menu shortcut. (This requires the browser
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option to be set in the dunstrc).
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* dunstify ( a drop-in replacement for notify-send)
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Since notify-send lacks some features I need to for testing, I've
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written dunstify. It supports the same option as notify-send + The
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abillity to print the id of the notification to stdout and to replace
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or close existing notifications.
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example:
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id=$(dunstify -p "Replace" "this should get replaced after the sleep")
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sleep 5
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dunstify -r $id "replacement"
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see dunstify --help for additional info.
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Since dunstify depends on non-public parts of libnotify it may break
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on every other libnotify version than that version that I use.
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Because of this it does not get build and installed by default.
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It can be build with "make dunstify". An installation target does
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not exist.
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Please don't open bug reports when dunstify doesn't work with your
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version of libnotify
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===================================================================================
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Release Notes For v0.4.0
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===================================================================================
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Since dunst has lost its ability to show notifications independend of
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dbus/libnotify a long time ago I think it is time that the describtion reflects
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that. Even though this breaks the acronym. So if you're a packager please update
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the package description to read something like:
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short:
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"Dunst - a dmenu-ish notification-daemon"
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long:
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"Dunst is a highly configurable and lightweight notification-daemon"
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Release Tarballs are now available at:
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http://www.knopwob.org/public/dunst-release/
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For more information have a look at the CHANGELOG and the new options in dunstrc.
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