UnixNotis

UnixNotis is a Wayland-first notification system with a D-Bus daemon, a control-center panel, and toast popups.

Documentation

Documentation lives in the GitHub Wiki (see the Wiki tab on the repository).

Clone the wiki locally if needed:

git clone https://github.com/locainin/UnixNotis.wiki.git

Configuration and Styling

See the wiki for more details.

Features

• Freedesktop.org notification daemon with history, rules, sound, and DND.
• Persistent DND state across daemon restarts.
• Control-center panel with widgets, notification list, and media controls.
• Toast popup UI with configurable timeouts and styling.
• D-Bus inhibit API for programmatic popup suppression.
• MPRIS media integration with playback controls.
• Hot-reloaded config and CSS for fast iteration.
• CLI control via noticenterctl.

Requirements

• Wayland session.
• GTK4 + gtk4-layer-shell (pkg-config: gtk4-layer-shell-0).
• D-Bus session bus.
• systemd --user for the installer-managed service.
• Rust toolchain for builds and the installer.

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/locainin/UnixNotis
cd UnixNotis
cargo run --release -p unixnotis-installer

Development

cargo test --workspace
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings