Volnoti
Volnoti is a lightweight volume notification daemon for GNU/Linux and other POSIX operating systems. It is based on GTK+ and D-Bus and should work with any sensible window manager. The original aim was to create a volume notification daemon for lightweight window managers like LXDE or XMonad. It is known to work with a wide range of WMs, including GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, XMonad, i3 and many others. The source code is heavily based on the GNOME notification-daemon.
Distribution packages
Dependencies
You need the following libraries to compile Volnoti yourself. Please install them through the package manager of your distribution, or follow installation instructions on the projects' websites.
You can compile it with standard GCC, with make and pkg-config
installed, and you will need autoconf and automake if you choose
to compile the Git version.
Compilation from Git
Start by downloading the source code from GitHub:
$ git clone git://github.com/davidbrazdil/volnoti.git
$ cd volnoti
Let Autotools create the configuration scripts:
$ ./prepare.sh
Then just follow the basic GNU routine:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install
You can have the .tar.gz source archive prepared simply by calling
a provided script:
$ ./package.sh
Compilation from source archive
Download the .tar.gz source archive from the GitHub page, and then
extract its contents by calling:
$ tar xvzf volnoti-*.tar.gz
Then just follow the basic GNU routine:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install
Running the application
Firstly, you need to running the daemon (add it to your startup applications):
$ volnoti
Consult the output of volnoti --help if you want to see debug output
ot don't want the application to run as a daemon. You can also change
some parameters of the notifications (like their duration time) through
the parameters of the daemon.
Once the daemon is running, you can run for example:
$ volnoti-show 25
to show a notification for volume level 25%. To show a notification for muted sound, call:
$ volnoti-show -m
The best way to do this is to create simple script and attach it to the hot-keys on your keyboard. But this depends on your window manager and system configuration.
Theming
Some parameters of the notifications can be changed through the parameters of the daemon. To learn more, run:
$ volnoti --help
All the images are stored in /usr/share/pixmaps/volnoti (depending
on the chosen prefix during configuration phase) and it should be
easy to replace them with your favourite icons.
Credits
- Faenza Icon Set (tiheum.deviantart.com)
- Notification-daemon (www.gnome.org)
- Gopt (www.purposeful.co.uk/software/gopt)