mako

A lightweight notification daemon for Wayland. Works on Sway.

mako implements the FreeDesktop Notifications Specification.

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Running

mako will run automatically when a notification is emitted. This happens via D-Bus activation, so you don't really need to explicitly start it up (this also allows delaying its startup time and speed up system startup).

If you have several notification daemons installed though, you might want to explicitly start this one. Some ways of achieving this is:

If you're using Sway you can start mako on launch by putting exec mako in your configuration file.
If you are not using systemd, you might need to manually start a dbus user session: dbus-daemon --session --address=unix:path=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus

Configuration

mako can be extensively configured and customized - feel free to read more using the command man 5 mako

For control of mako during runtime, makoctl can be used; see man makoctl

Building

Install dependencies:

meson (build-time dependency)
wayland
pango
cairo
systemd, elogind or basu (for the sd-bus library)
gdk-pixbuf (optional, for icons support)
dbus (runtime dependency, user-session support is required)
scdoc (optional, for man pages)
jq (optional, runtime dependency)

Then run:

meson build
ninja -C build
build/mako

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