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.
The original repo https://github.com/davidbrazdil/volnoti has had no signs of activity since the last decade. This fork incorporates some of the pull requests from the original repo that seemed to be useful:
- Option for brightness
- Option for mic mute and unmute
- Generating value-*-stub.h ??
- Allow one decimal place to daemon's --timeout argument
along with some other feature(s) that I wanted:
Other changes to the project include help message changes, change in an error message, a changed brightness icon and an updated PKGBUILD file for arch linux (not in AUR).
- Arch Linux
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.
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
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
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
To show a notification for muted microphone, run:
$ volnoti-show -c
To show a notification for un-muted microphone, run:
$ volnoti-show -u
To show a notification for brightness level 50%, run:
$ volnoti-show -b 50
To show a notification for a custom activity, you can pass the absolute path to the icon with:
$ volnoti-show -p /home/chad/svgs/gaming.svg
This option can also take an integer for the progressbar value. (Default value for the progressbar is 0):
$ volnoti-show -p /home/chad/svgs/play.svg 73
For icons that do not need a progressbar, simply pass 101 as the progressbar value:
$ volnoti-show -p /home/chad/svgs/previous.svg 101
The best way to use volnoti is to create a simple script and attach it to the hot-keys on your keyboard. But this depends on your window manager and system configuration.
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.
- Brightness Icon (updated) (https://www.svgrepo.com/svg/479348/brightness)
- Faenza Icon Set (tiheum.deviantart.com)
- Notification-daemon (www.gnome.org)
- Gopt (www.purposeful.co.uk/software/gopt)