Wired

Wired is light and fully customizable notification daemon that provides you with powerful and extensible layout tools.

Features

• Layout - position every element how you want it, see wiki for more info.
• Programmable and Interactable Layout Elements - code your own or use layout elements from wired and contributors (accepting pull requests!).
  • Text blocks which scroll.
  • Backgrounds which reflect state (paused, active, extended, etc).
  • Layout elements can fire events on click (open url, etc).
  • More soon.
• First Class Mouse Actions - close, pause, and open urls within a notification with a click.
  • Open an issue if you have ideas of more actions.
• Every notification is a different window - pretty sick of stuff only being able to show one notification at a time honestly.

Showcase

Check out what other people have made with Wired!

Config

See the Config wiki page for configuration settings.

Wiki

See the wiki for everything else you need to know about using Wired.

Making your own elements

Making your own layout elements is designed to be as easy as possible. Anybody who knows basic Rust should be able to make a layout element. See the wiki for a detailed tutorial on making and adding a layout element to Wired.

Building

Dependencies

rust, dbus, cairo, pango, glib2, x11, xss (for idle support)

Build and Run

$ git clone https://github.com/Toqozz/wired-notify.git
$ cd wired-notify
$ cargo build --release
$ ./target/release/wired

Installing

AUR

Wired is available on the AUR!

$ yay -S wired

There's also a -git version which tracks master. Beware! No guarantees are made about stability on the master branch. However, I do appreciate any help finding bugs before they make it to a release:

$ yay -S wired-git

Nix (Flakes)

Flake support was added to Nix in version 2.4. As of Nix 2.8, you must enable the nix-command and flakes experimental features.

Wired can be run directly from the repository, using:

nix run 'github:Toqozz/wired-notify'

To install Wired to your user profile:

# note: the systemd service will not be available if installed with this method
nix profile install 'github:Toqozz/wired-notify'

To use it in another flake:

{
  inputs = {
    wired.url = "github:Toqozz/wired-notify";
  };
}

For example, to install it for all users in NixOS:

{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable";
    wired.url = "github:Toqozz/wired-notify";
  };
  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, wired }: let
    std = nixpkgs.lib;
    system = "x86_64-linux";
  in {
    nixosConfigurations.alice = std.nixosSystem {
      inherit system;
      modules = [
        ./configuration.nix
        {
          environment.systemPackages = [ wired.packages.${system}.wired ];
        }
      ];
    };
  };
}

This flake also provides a module for home-manager. To use it in your configuration:

{
  # ...
  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, home-manager, wired, ... }: {
    homeConfigurations.alice = let
      system = "x86_64-linux";
    in home-manager.lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
      pkgs = import nixpkgs {
        inherit system;
        overlays = [ wired.overlays.${system} ];
      };

      modules = [
        wired.homeManagerModules.default
        ({ ... }: {
          services.wired = {
            enable = true;
            config = ./wired.ron;
          };
        })
      ];
    };
  };
}

NetBSD

Wired is available from the official repositories,

$ pkgin install wired-notify

or, if you prefer to build from source

$ cd /usr/pkgsrc/x11/wired-notify
$ make install

Fedora, CentOs and other RHEL-based distributions

Make sure you have DNF installed, and run the script with sudo permissions, otherwise the necessary dependencies cannot be installed.

$ cd wired-notify
$ chmod +x installer.sh
$ sudo ./installer.sh

Running

The recommended way to start Wired is just to put the following in your autostart script:

/path/to/wired &

There is also a wired.service file in the root of the repository if you want to use systemd. Just copy it to /usr/local/lib/systemd/user/wired.service (or your distro equivalent) and run:

$ systemctl enable --now --user wired.service