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mb121

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Registered: 2016-05-12

Posts: 3

Capturing notifications?

I am getting tired of my eyes being pasted all over my computer screen, so I've been building programs to tell me through espeak when certain things happen that I care about. I want to hook this up to my desktop notification system, where notifications are read, passed through a filter so that everyone in the house doesn't catch a whiff of my business, and have it read out to me. Such things as "You have 22 updates available"...

The problem is that after a few searches, nobody on the planet earth seems to have had this thought, of simply capturing the text of a system/user notification. Since I'm using XFCE, I thought I'd post it here.

Is there any way I can capture notifications? Perhaps as an object of some sort, like
{
    title: Pacman
    message: 22 updates
    icon: /usr/share/whatever
    urgency: nah
}

inb4 no lol

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,034

Re: Capturing notifications?

As of, I believe, version 0.3.5, xfce4-notifyd supports logging. The log can be viewed in the app, via the panel plugin (as of version 0.4.0) , or via a log file saved in ~/.cache/xfce4/notifyd.

What version are you using?

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