Xfce Notify Daemon The Xfce Notify Daemon (xfce4-notifyd for short) is a smallish program that implements the "server-side" portion of the Freedesktop desktop notifications specification. Applications that wish to pop up a notification bubble in a standard way can implicitly make use of xfce4-notifyd to do so by sending standard messages over D-Bus using the org.freedesktop.Notifications interface. Requirements: * gtk+ 2.14.0 * dbus 1.0.0 * dbus-glib 0.72 * libxfce4util 4.4.0 * libxfce4ui 4.7.0 * xfconf 4.6 * libnotify 0.7 Additionally, I'd recommend use with a compositing manager running; in that case xfce4-notifyd will look a bit nicer and will be semi-transparent and will fade out, and other nice pretty things. This isn't required by any means, of course. Installation: The usual: ./configure make make install should work just fine. Pass --prefix=/path/to/wherever to install in a location other than /usr/local. In order for xfce4-notifyd to be started automatically, you must have a <servicedir> directive in your D-Bus session configuration file. If you install xfce4-notifyd to a standard prefix (like /usr), you shouldn't need to worry about this. Configuration: Run xfce4-notifyd-config to display the settings dialog. There aren't any other tunables; if you don't see it in the settings dialog, it's not changeable. Theming: Xfce4-notifyd uses gtk's standard theming system. You can create new themes by creating a normal gtkrc file. See the example included themes for details of how to reference the various widgets present in a normal notification dialog. You'll want to put your gtkrc file in $HOME/.themes/THEMENAME/xfce4-notify-4.0 and then start up the configuration dialog to set the theme. If you think you've come up with a cool theme, feel free to send it to me, and I'll be happy to include it in the next release. For themes shipped with xfce4-notifyd, I require all parts of them to be redistributable under the terms of a license compatible with the GPLv2.
