Add notification inhibition

[cherti]

Sometime one does not want to be disturbed by notifications, for example when concentrating on a task. As mako is dbus-activated, notifications cannot be suppressed by disabling it As still software might try to send notifications, it would be useful to have a feature to inhibit notifications for a given amount of time.

Exemplary syntax: makoctl inhibit <duration> with duration either being seconds or possibly sth. more sophisticated like a timestring (1h, 30m, 30s), if that is easy to implement.

[emersion]

See also #138

[tukusejssirs]

Just a sidenote: I would call this Do Not Disturb (DND), just like GNOME 3 and Android calls this. 😃

[maximbaz]

There is a simple way to achieve notification inhibition today: makoctl set invisible=true and makoctl set invisible=false.

[cherti]

The interesting question is: do we expect to have inhibited notifications stream in once the inhibition has timed out?

[maximbaz]

I think you can achieve both, if you want to preserve those notifications, just use makoctl set invisible=false, if you want to clear them, perhaps just restart mako process instead.

[emersion]

You can makoctl dismiss -a to dismiss all notifications.

[lokesh-krishna]

There is a simple way to achieve notification inhibition today: makoctl set invisible=true and makoctl set invisible=false.

Running this on the latest release gives me makoctl: unrecognized command 'set'.

[fluix-dev]

latest release

That's because the latest release doesn't contain #218, you'll have to run master until the next one.

[badosu]

Running on master makoctl set invisible=true is not working.

I'm attempting to make a waybar module for it, would be nice to be able to makoctl get invisible so I can display its current status.

[fluix-dev]

... is not working

Perhaps it's because of the caveat pointed out by this comment? Otherwise, report a bug.

[emersion]

makoctl set has now been removed from master, it caused tricky issues. The new plan is #335.

[David96]

In case it is useful for someone:
my current way of disabling notifications is to have the following service file under ~/.local/share/dbus-1/services/fr.emersion.mako.service:

[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
Exec=
SystemdService=

Having that disables the dbus activation of mako - to enable notifications I rename it, to disable them again I rename it back and killall mako.

[emersion]

Closing as a duplicate of #335