SwayNotificationCenter

A simple notification daemon with a gui built for Sway (potentially any wm with wlroots).

Features

Keyboard shortcuts
Notification body markup with image support
A panel to view previous notifications
Show album art for notifications like Spotify
Do not disturb
Click notification to execute default action
Show alternative notification actions
Customization through a CSS file
Trackpad/mouse gesture to close notification
The same features as any other basic notification daemon

Planned Features

Slick animations 😎
Other build scripts than a PKGBUILD (debian and/or RHEL systems)

Install

Arch: The package is available on the AUR

Other:

meson build
ninja -C build
meson install -C build

Sway Usage

# Notification Daemon
exec swaync

# Toggle notification panel
bindsym $mod+Shift+n exec swaync-client -t -sw

Run

To start the daemon (remember to kill any other notification daemon before running)

./build/src/swaync

To toggle the panel

./build/src/swaync-client -t

Notification Panel Shortcuts

Up/Down: Navigate notifications
Home: Navigate to the latest notification
End: Navigate to the oldest notification
Escape/Caps_Lock: Close notification panel
Return: Execute default action or close notification if none
Delete/BackSpace: Close notification
C: Close all notifications
D: Toggle Do Not Disturb
Buttons 1-9: Execute alternative actions

Configuring

The main config file is located in /etc/xdg/swaync/config.json. Copy it over to your .config/swaync/ folder to customize without needing root access.

positionX: left or right
positionY: top or bottom

The main CSS style file is located in /etc/xdg/swaync/style.css. Copy it over to your .config/swaync/ folder to customize without needing root access.

Screenshots

I wonder how this would look with some blur 🤔

phwelo/SwayNotificationCenter