Do we want to use dmenu for this?

It would be great to have icon support in mako. What do you think?

Might be tricky to do this and wrap the text

See #43

Would be a very welcome addition!

@vilhalmer You've mentioned in #16 that you may do this for --padding too, have you gotten around to that? Or do you have no need for it?

The notification body can contain markup, but the notification summary cannot.

And use the default one instead

I'm using Telegram Desktop and, when I receive several messages, the notifications pile up even if they are from the same person. There could be a way to group them and show the title (is it called summary?) only once, at the top.

Which could then be bound to a key.

It would be nice to have the ability to center notifications on the screen (horizontally, don't know if anyone would want to center them vertically) without manually calculating margins.

I would like to point out that an identifier like “_MAKO_CRITERIA_H” does eventually not fit to the expected naming convention of the C language standard.
Would you like to adjust your selection for unique names?

See e.g. swaywm/sway#2677

(Also see swaywm/sway#2691)

Hi,

I use both long and short notification in terms of line lenght. I can set width but that's looking ugly for short notification.

See screenshot of what I mean, or maybe honoring the line break and calculate the lenght of the longest line?

In other words, bottom-left and bottom-right results in the notifications being glued to the top of the swaybar, regardless of the bottom margin. This isn't the case for the top. Happens in the current version, but not in 1.1. Probably #74?

To reproduce, notify-send something and then immediately ^C mako.

Jun 14 21:50:26 sayaka kernel: mako[19007]: segfault at 8 ip 00007f92b4543947 sp 00007ffe0c8c1b28 error 6 in libwayland-client.so.0.3.0[7f92b453a000+d000]
Jun 14 21:50:26 sayaka systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 19035/UID 0).
Jun 14 21:50:26 sayaka systemd-coredump[19038]: Process 19007 (mako) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                
    Stack trace of thread 19007:
    #0  0x00007f92b4543947 wl_list_remove (libwayland-client.so.0)
    #1  0x000055a891f5cde1 n/a (mako)
    #2  0x000055a891f5dec5 n/a (mako)
    #3  0x000055a891f5b816 n/a (mako)
    #4  0x00007f92b41a106b __libc_start_main (libc.so.6)
    #5  0x000055a891f5b8aa n/a (mako)

Probably better on timed-out messages over clicked ones

Taken from my previous issue on playing a notification chime. Perhaps the same rules for #3 could be used to run user-defined scripts so that they could be notification/urgency/etc specific?

As an example: if you putformat=%s\n%b in the config file, the notification result wold be Summary\nBody (those are two value that i'm using for testing).
Debugging the line that mako gets from the config file, you get that the \ char is escaped.
gdb output (breakpoint at config.c:378):

(gdb) p eq + 1
$1 = 0x555555572387 "%s\\n%b"

I occasionally see this error: "no buffer available"

This means we're trying to render but the compositor is still using all of our buffers.

This is solved by waiting for the compositor to tell us to render via the wl_surface.frame event:

• Instead of re-rendering when our state changes, mark the surface as dirty and schedule a frame event
• When we get a frame event, clear our dirty flag and render

Hi,

Do you know if it's possible to add animation to notification ( like an animation from right to left, when notification show up. And/Or blur background ) ?

Sorry for my english, it's not my native language...

I am not sure if you would consider this an issue, but I figure its worth pointing out that your project's name conflicts with the well known python template library, Mako.

http://www.makotemplates.org/
https://pypi.org/project/Mako/

This was momentarily confusing when I thought the other Mako made an updated release. :)

Running mako I get this error:
Failed to acquire service name: Permission denied

Following this thread now mako works.

Related issue.

If you create a new layer surface each time with wl_output set to NULL, then whenever the notifications come in they'll show up on the last active output.

And specify a max number of notifications.

Specify a max size in the config. Should ellipsize text that's too long.

I started using mako, but I got a problem on startup somehow. I installed it as a systemd user unit, which looks like this:

$ cat /etc/systemd/user/mako.service 
[Unit]
Description=mako
Documentation=man:mako(1)
Documentation=https://www.mako-project.org/
PartOf=graphical-session.target

[Service]
Type=dbus
BusName=org.freedesktop.Notifications
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mako 
ExecReload=/usr/bin/makoctl reload

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

When I start it manually it works fine but when it gets started automatically, it fails with:

-- Reboot --
Aug 22 09:33:38 pc mako[1577]: failed to create display
Aug 22 09:33:38 pc systemd[1569]: Starting mako...
Aug 22 09:33:38 pc systemd[1569]: Started mako.
Aug 22 09:33:38 pc systemd[1569]: mako.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 22 09:33:38 pc systemd[1569]: mako.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

I suppose it gets started too early but how do I correct this? Any Idea?

Otherwise: thanks for a nice dropin replacement for dunst .. great work!

Hello. All I get when I try to run mako is this line.
Dbus is running, as far as I can see.

message+   331  0.0  0.0  17256  3160 ?        Ss   Oct20   3:47 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
sorrow    1467  0.0  0.0  15824  2112 ?        Ss   Oct26   0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --syslog-only --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
sorrow   26793  0.0  0.0  15456  2284 ?        Ss   03:45   0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --syslog --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session

I'm running sway-1.0-beta1 on gentoo.

Running mako in a terminal in regular X11/i3 causes a segfault. Not a big deal functionally, but might be nice to handle this cleanly.

$ git describe --long --all
heads/master-0-gf66545

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff6efc033 in wl_proxy_marshal_constructor (proxy=0x0, opcode=1, interface=0x555555761c80 <wl_registry_interface>) at src/wayland-client.c:824
824	src/wayland-client.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt full
#0  0x00007ffff6efc033 in wl_proxy_marshal_constructor (proxy=0x0, opcode=1, interface=0x555555761c80 <wl_registry_interface>) at src/wayland-client.c:824
        args = {{i = 2, u = 2, f = 2, s = 0x2 <error: Cannot access memory at address 0x2>, o = 0x2, n = 2, a = 0x2, h = 2}, {i = 0, u = 0, f = 0, s = 0x0, o = 0x0, n = 0, a = 0x0, h = 0} <repeats 19 times>}
        ap = {{gp_offset = 0, fp_offset = 0, overflow_arg_area = 0x0, reg_save_area = 0x0}}
#1  0x000055555555cbf2 in wl_display_get_registry (wl_display=0x0) at /usr/local/include/wayland-client-protocol.h:978
        registry = 0x7fffffffe180
#2  0x000055555555db3e in init_wayland (state=0x7fffffffdeb0) at ../wayland.c:263
No locals.
#3  0x000055555555b0bc in init (state=0x7fffffffdeb0) at ../main.c:41
No locals.
#4  0x000055555555b288 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe188) at ../main.c:83
        state = {config = {font = 0x555555770ec0 "monospace 10", width = 300, height = 100, padding = 5, border_size = 1, markup = true, format = 0x555555770ee0 "<b>%s</b>\n%b", actions = true, margin = {top = 10, right = 10, 
              bottom = 10, left = 10}, max_visible = 5, output = 0x555555770f00 "", default_timeout = 0, colors = {background = 676689919, text = 4294967295, border = 1282972159}, button_bindings = {
              left = MAKO_BUTTON_BINDING_INVOKE_DEFAULT_ACTION, right = MAKO_BUTTON_BINDING_DISMISS, middle = MAKO_BUTTON_BINDING_NONE}}, event_loop = {fds = {{fd = 0, events = 0, revents = 0}, {fd = 0, events = 0, 
                revents = 0}, {fd = 0, events = 0, revents = 0}}, bus = 0x0, display = 0x0, running = false, timers = {prev = 0x0, next = 0x0}, next_timer = 0x0}, bus = 0x555555771130, xdg_slot = 0x5555557741b0, 
          mako_slot = 0x5555557740d0, display = 0x0, registry = 0x0, compositor = 0x0, shm = 0x0, layer_shell = 0x0, xdg_output_manager = 0x0, pointers = {prev = 0x7fffffffdfa8, next = 0x7fffffffdfa8}, outputs = {
            prev = 0x7fffffffdfb8, next = 0x7fffffffdfb8}, surface = 0x0, surface_output = 0x0, layer_surface = 0x0, layer_surface_output = 0x0, configured = false, scale = 0, width = 0, height = 0, buffers = {{buffer = 0x0, 
              surface = 0x0, cairo = 0x0, pango = 0x0, width = 0, height = 0, data = 0x0, size = 0, busy = false}, {buffer = 0x0, surface = 0x0, cairo = 0x0, pango = 0x0, width = 0, height = 0, data = 0x0, size = 0, 
              busy = false}}, current_buffer = 0x0, last_id = 0, notifications = {prev = 0x0, next = 0x0}}
        ret = 0
        sa = {__sigaction_handler = {sa_handler = 0x0, sa_sigaction = 0x0}, sa_mask = {__val = {0, 18374686479671623680, 71776123339472640, 18446744073709551360, 18446744073709551615, 18374686479671623680, 71776123339472640, 
              0, 0, 93824994427904, 93824994427152, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}}, sa_flags = 0, sa_restorer = 0x0}

Leftovers from #43.

Are notification chimes something we'd like to implement? Maybe they could be configured based on application with #3?

Maybe implement some sort of filtering system, e..g to be able to style differently notifications coming from a specific app?

Depends on #7, I don't want to add CLI flags for this.

#43.

Should be able to set the format to display something like "8 more". Should also be able to hide it with an empty format.

Will need xdg-output v2 for that.

The function “calloc” does not belong to the list of async-signal-safe functions.
I guess that a different program design will be needed for your function “handle_signal”.

Which should read the config again.

#43.

If the body of a notification contains something that pango considers to be invalid markup, the markup within the user-specified format will be ignored as well (see screenshot for an example). This is because we're parsing the entire formatted notification at once. This is required to have relative markup work correctly, but it could be made more robust. Here's what I propose:

• Attempt to parse the body alone using pango_parse_markup, without saving the result.
• If this reported success, continue as usual.
• Otherwise, escape the body using the existing escape_markup function before formatting.
• Parse the entire thing as we do now.

This will allow the user's format to continue working (e.g. to display the summary in bold) even when the body is unparseable. It's arguable that this isn't a mako bug, but the result of clients sending notifications that don't follow the spec. However, I've now seen this from two separate programs (including Slack), so it's probably worth putting a bandaid on.

An example of the < character causing parsing to fail.

cannot parse pango markup: Error on line 2 char 7: '<' is not a valid name

Only the notification summary is displayed right now.

When a window is in fullscreen mode, notifications do not show.

I'm running Sway 1.0 alpha 2.

Should it be dunst-compatible?

It should behave like --help, which incidentally tells you that -h is supposed to work like --help.