Desktop Notifications

The Desktop Notifications framework provides a standard way of doing passive pop-up notifications on the Linux desktop. These are designed to notify the user of something without interrupting their work with a dialog box that they must close. Passive popups can automatically disappear after a short period of time.

This project consists of a specification and implementation (libnotify and notification-daemon).

Documentation

• Desktop Notification Specification
• Frequently Asked Questions
• NotifyWindow design
• PerlNotificationsExample
• PythonNotificationsExample

Help Wanted

Patches to libnotify and notification-daemon are welcome, and there are many improvements that can be made. See NotificationTasks for a list of possible improvements.

Links

• Desktop Notifications specification