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D.dave

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Registered: 2019-12-06

Posts: 91

Fine set the position of notifications and add a border

Hi, in the notifications preflet, I've set notifications to appear in bottom right position.
I'd like to have them a little bit more upper, eg of 100 pixel above the panel; what I have to change in the notification's gtk.css file?
At the moment I have personal notifications style, set in the file ~/.themes/MyNotifications/xfce-notify-4.0/gtk.css:

#XfceNotifyWindow {
    background-color: transparent;
    border-color: #ffffff;
    box-shadow: none;
    border-style: solid;
}

Works as expected, but furthermore, no border is draw.

EDIT: also border-width: 5px; does nothing.
EDIT 2: also if i stop picom, the border is not present.
EDIT 3: I also tried to set border: 5px solid #FFFFFF, but no dice.

Last edited by D.dave (2025-01-25 09:50:09)

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ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,784

Re: Fine set the position of notifications and add a border

Your tweaks work, but you need to restart the xfce4-notifyd process to re-read the contents of the gtk.css file and process it.

I'd like to have them a little bit more upper, eg of 100 pixel above the panel; what I have to change in the notification's gtk.css file?

I don't think this is currently possible.

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D.dave

Member

Registered: 2019-12-06

Posts: 91

Re: Fine set the position of notifications and add a border

you need to restart the xfce4-notifyd process

I did it: systemctl --user restart xfce4-notifyd.service but still no bordesr; I also manually killed the process and restart it: still no borders.

Added later 19 min 55 s:

the gtk.css file

I made a workaround: in Gimp I create an png image with the same size of the notifications, and I added it to gtk.css:

background-image: url("file:/home/dave/Pictures/notifications-background.png");

And now there is the border of the image:

EDIT: nothing to do: are messed and broken:

Ok, I solved by adding:

 background-repeat: round;

Last edited by D.dave (2025-01-25 15:26:55)

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OS: Manjaro x86_64
DE: Xfce 4.20