Dunst cannot be configured through command line arguments

[exorcist365]

Why have you removed this, it was one of the most useful functionalities of this program????

[fwsmit]

What's your use case?

[orhun]

I just saw this issue and I'd like to express the same feelings towards the new release. Most of the things seems to be changed: my old config is not working as expected anymore and I guess I have to do things like "startup notification" and "shortcuts" manually now. It *almost* feels like a 2.0.0 release...

[exorcist365]

What's your use case?

I have a script to get the colors from xresources and use them to configure dunst.

[exorcist365]

Also removing [shortcuts] is retarded as hell, I agree.

[flipMWD]

I also noticed [shortcuts] is not working as intended. Is there any way to keybind dunstctl close[-all] in the dunstrc config file or do I have to modify my WM to send the command itself (will probably interfere with other applications).

[fwsmit]

I just saw this issue and I'd like to express the same feelings towards the new release. Most of the things seems to be changed: my old config is not working as expected anymore and I guess I have to do things like "startup notification" and "shortcuts" manually now. It almost feels like a 2.0.0 release...

Why would you want startup notifications except for debugging? Anyways, you can keep using it with dunst --startup_notification.

[shortcuts] can easily be replaced with WM/DM bindings and using dunstctl. It's been deprecated for a long time and wasn't

I have a script to get the colors from xresources and use them to configure dunst.

Luckily this problem is already solved by https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst/blob/master/contrib/dunst_xr_theme_changer.sh. Just run the script and change your config location to ~/.config/dusnt/dunstrc_xr_colors. As always, every time you change the config, you need to restart dunst.

[exorcist365]

Why not just bring these options back instead 🤯 🤯 🤯

[aleksfadini]

Please bring back shortcuts and command line arguments

[fwsmit]

For clarity, these settings weren't exactly removed, instead they weren't re-implemented after the settings refactor (#803). This was because these things weren't deemed important enough, since they have other similar alternatives.

As for the shortcuts section, I haven't heard good reasons to bring it back. There are lots of ways to add shortcuts and we don't need yet another one. On top of that, it's not possible for programs in wayland to add global shortcuts themselves, making it a X11 only feature. Just use your WM's way of defining shortcuts or use something like sxhkd. You are free to contribute your config to contrib to make it easier for others.

As for the command line arguments, the deprecation notice has existed for a long time (#328), at least regarding section-specific command line arguments. Unfortunately, due to bad timing by me, the best proposed alternative hasn't been merged yet, but is on it's way. This will come in the form of drop-in config files (#933). This will allow you to generate a simple dunst drop-in file that contains only the x resources colours, while keeping the rest of your config non-generated. I hope this alternative is sufficient, but otherwise let me know why it's not.

[EgZvor]

@fwsmit would be good to mention this in the README, don't you think? I can make a PR.

[fwsmit]

@fwsmit would be good to mention this in the README, don't you think? I can make a PR.

True. A PR would be appreciated :)

[fwsmit]

For clarity, I'm considering re-adding the command line options in a slightly different from. They would be with double dashes (--). It shouldn't be too complicated, it's just something I haven't gotten to.

[marcelofern]

For the record, this is a script I was using to change dunst colors based on the pywal theme. This isn't working anymore:

#!/bin/sh

# source wal colors.
source ~/.cache/wal/colors.sh

pkill --exact dunst
dunst \
    -config=~/.config/dunst/dunstrc \
    -frame_width 1 \
    -lb $color0 \
    -lf $color7 \
    -lfr $color3 \
    -cb $color0 \
    -cf $color7 \
    -cfr $color3 \
    -nb $color0 \
    -nf $color7 \
    -nfr $color3 &

[aleksfadini]

For the record, this is a script I was using to change dunst colors based on the pywal theme. This isn't working anymore:

#!/bin/sh

# source wal colors.
source ~/.cache/wal/colors.sh

pkill --exact dunst
dunst \
    -config=~/.config/dunst/dunstrc \
    -frame_width 1 \
    -lb $color0 \
    -lf $color7 \
    -lfr $color3 \
    -cb $color0 \
    -cf $color7 \
    -cfr $color3 \
    -nb $color0 \
    -nf $color7 \
    -nfr $color3 &

Would like to know what is a workaround for this, since it stopped working.