Themeable On Screen Displays for X.
When running a minimal desktop environment with openbox and the likes on a notebook, one might miss those fancy popups that appear when you change brightnes and volume levels, eject a disk, etc... NotificaThor allows you to do this.
NotificaThor comes as a simple user daemon, that can be put into .xinitrc or whatever startup method you prefer. You can then send commands to it with a simple commandline client.
NotificaThor aims to be a more flexible and aesthetic alternative to the trusty old XOSD.
- GNU C Compiler
- GNU Make
- librt
- libpthread
- libxcb
- libxcb-shape
- libfreetype2
- libfontconfig
- libmath
- libcairo >= 1.12 with support for fontconfig, freetype, png-functions, image-surfaces and xcb-surfaces.
Simply running
make install
as root will install the binaries to /usr/bin, configuration to /etc/NotificaThor and MAN-pages to /usr/share/man/. If you want to install to a fake root directory (e.g. for package creation) use the prefix-variable.
make install prefix=/fake/root
The subdirectories usr/bin, usr/share/man and etc must exist.
The daemon will create the directory $XDG_CACHE_HOME/NotificaThor with the file image_cache in it.
make debug
Compiles source files without optimizations and with debugging informations (-O0 -g).
make testing
Compiles source files with the TESTING-flag defined. NotificaThor will then only read config files from ./etc/NotificaThor/.
make verbose
Compiles source files with the VERBOSE-flag defined. This activates some more debugging messages when the -v option is used.
The commands can be combined:
make debug testing verbose
After installing run
$ notificathor
then for producing an OSD run
$ thor-cli -b2/3 --no-image
This will produce a plain popup with a bar filled to 2/3 (note the astounding resemblance) and no image. To add an image run
$ thor-cli -b2/3 -i"/path/to/an/image-file"
You can also show a text message:
$ thor-cli --no-image --no-bar -m'Hello World!'