Question: Mako mute notifications

[mordax7]

Hello,

Just a few days ago, I was thinking about how to mute Makos notifications, since I don't want to share all my private conversations with everyone while screen sharing 😄 I saw your previous solution with makoctl set and tried it out myself. Found out that it was actually not implemented yet in an official release and not even planned for release because of some issues I believe? However, I just stumbled upon your workaround in a461928 and had a questions.

I added your changes from the commit to my own system, but when I use systemctl to check Maco's status, I get:

~ 
❯ systemctl --user status mako
Unit mako.service could not be found.

~ 
❯ systemctl status mako
Unit mako.service could not be found.

I am not familiar with dbus-1/services, so I would need some help understanding what I am doing wrong. 🙂

Thanks!

[maximbaz]

Hello!

makoctl set was actually implemented for a while in master branch, but then got reverted 😞 We are waiting for emersion/mako#335 - see emersion/mako#278 (comment) and emersion/mako#278 (comment)

You are doing everything correctly, the issue is that you don't have systemd service because it was only added after the last mako release - so it works for me, because I use AUR/mako-git.

If you want to keep running community/mako, you can simply put mako.service to ~/.config/systemd/user/ folder and systemctl --user daemon-reload to get it. Then it should all work, hopefully.

But I would suggest to consider using mako-git, unfortunately they are cutting releases waay to rarely (last one was more than a year ago!).

[mordax7]

Ah yes, that fixed it!

I was a bit confused because I saw the package here https://github.com/maximbaz/dotfiles/blob/master/packages/PKGBUILD#L182 and thought it was the community/mako one, since it did not have the -git.

But thanks for your help!
Closing this one. 🙂