Desktop::Notify is a set of simple bindings to libnotify using NativeCall.
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use v6;
use Desktop::Notify :constants;
my $notify = Desktop::Notify.new(app-name => 'myapp');
my $n = $notify.new-notification('Attention!', 'What just happened?', 'stop');
$notify.set-timeout($n, NOTIFY_EXPIRES_NEVER);
$notify.show($n);
sleep 2;
$notify.update($n, 'Oh well!', 'Not quite a disaster!', 'stop');
$notify.show($n);
If you run this code, note that the notification doesn't fade by itself, but you need to click on it in order to close it.
For more examples see the example
directory.
Constructs a new Desktop::Notify
object. It takes one mandatory argument:
app-name
, the name of the app that will be registered with the notify dæmon.
Returns True if the object has been successfully initialized.
Queries or sets the app name.
new-notification(Str :$summary!, Str :$body!, Str :$icon!, Int :$timeout?, Str :$category?, NotifyUrgency :$urgency? --> NotifyNotification)
Creates a new notification.
The first form takes three positional arguments: the summary string, the notification string and
the icon to display (See the libnotify documentation for the available icons).
The second form takes a number of named argument. summary
, body
, and icon
are mandatory,
the others are optional. If timeout
, category
, and urgency
are defined, this method will call
the corresponding "set" methods documented below.
Shows the notification on screen. It takes one mandatory argument, the
NotifyNotification object, and one optional argument, the GError object.
(The default Desktop::Notify error handling is not thread safe. See Threading safety
for more info)
Closes the notification. It takes one mandatory argument, the NotifyNotification
object, and one optional argument, the GError object. (The default
Desktop::Notify error handling is not thread safe. See Threading safety
for
more info)
Note that usually there's no need to explicitly close
a notification, since
the default is to automatically expire after a while.
Returns the the closed reason code for the notification. It takes one argument, the NotifyNotification object. (See the libnotify documentation for the meaning of this code)
Returns the notification type.
Modifies the messages of a notification which is already on screen.
Sets the notification timeout. There are two available constants,
NOTIFY_EXPIRES_DEFAULT
and NOTIFY_EXPIRES_NEVER
, when explicitly imported
with use Desktop::Notify :constants;
.
Sets the notification category (See the libnotify documentation).
Sets the notification urgency. An enum NotifyUrgency <NotifyUrgencyLow NotifyUrgencyNormal NotifyUrgencyCritical>
is available when explicitly imported with use Desktop::Notify :constants;
.
Collects the server capabilities and returns a sequence.
Reads the server info and returns an hash. The return value of the C function call is
returned as the value of the return
key of the hash.
Desktop::Notify offers a simple interface which provides an error
class member,
which is automatically used by the functions that need it.
Since error
is a shared class member, if a program makes use of threading, its value
might be written by another thread before it's been read.
In this case one can declare their own GError variables:
my $err = Desktop::Notify::GError.new;
and pass it as an optional argument to the .show() and .close() methods; it will be used instead of the object-wide one.
This module requires the libnotify library to be installed. Please follow the instructions below based on your platform:
sudo apt-get install libnotify4
$ zef install Desktop::Notify
To run the tests:
$ prove -e "perl6 -Ilib"
With version 0.2.0 I modified the enum NotifyUrgency
to avoid polluting (too much) the namespace.
Now instead of e.g. low
, one has to use NotifyUrgencyLow
.
Fernando Santagata
The Artistic License 2.0