Emacs and libnotify

Thursday, March 13. 2008

libnotify and notification-daemon are part of the galago project, a "desktop presence framework". libnotify shows popup windows on your desktop to alert you from some event, like new mail or an IM. I like the idea of use a single program to manage all your desktop notifications instead of having to implement the same code over and over again on all your apps. AFAIK libnotify is desktop-agnostic so it should work on GNOME, KDE, Xfce, etc.

What about emacs? Well, if you use jabber.el for jabber chatting, erc or rcirc for IRC you can use libnotify to do some fancy notifications.

For erc this guy hacked the libnotify support. I haven't tested personally but seems interesting.

For rcirc there's a wiki page about rcircNotify

For jabber.el I wrote a libnotify alert, here it is the wiki page for it.

Posted by Rodrigo Lazo in Emacs, Free Software at 23:25 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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FWIW, I wrote a bunch of support code using a hacked version of zenity. However, the zenity patch was never accepted into Gnome :-( It is still in Gnome bugzilla; I'm using it every day for ERC, EMMS, and the calendar. I also tried to get a patch into Emacs, but that didn't go so well either. Maybe someone else would like to rewrite it. Look for the "RFC: status icon support" thread, and other following threads, on the emacs devel list.

#1 Tom Tromey (Homepage) on 2008-03-14 16:01 (Reply)

I've been reading to the threads on emacs-devel and they are very interesting. The first one got lost on a discussion about C99 and K&R that should have been in another thread. AFAIK your patch uses both libnotify and gtkstatusicon which I think is great. I'll love to see your patch accepted and I would gladly help you but my C abilities are rather low and Emacs internals scary me. Don't give up on your idea, is awesome.

#1.1 Rodrigo Lazo on 2008-03-14 20:20 (Reply)

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