%general-entities; ]> libnotify The libnotify library is used to send desktop notifications to a notification daemon, as defined in the Desktop Notifications spec. These notifications can be used to inform the user about an event or display some form of information without getting in the user's way. &lfs121_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &libnotify-md5sum; Download size: &libnotify-size; Estimated disk space required: &libnotify-buildsize; Estimated build time: &libnotify-time; libnotify Dependencies Required Optional (Required if building GNOME) &gobject-introspection; Optional and Required (runtime) , , or GNOME Shell and KDE KWin provide their own notification daemons. Install libnotify by running the following commands: mkdir build && cd build && meson setup --prefix=/usr \ --buildtype=release \ -Dgtk_doc=false \ -Dman=false \ .. && ninja This package does not come with a test suite. If you have installed and wish to build the API documentation for this package, issue: sed "/docs_dir =/s@\$@ / 'libnotify'@" \ -i ../docs/reference/meson.build && meson configure -Dgtk_doc=true && ninja Now, as the root user: ninja install && if [ -e /usr/share/doc/libnotify ]; then rm -rf /usr/share/doc/libnotify-&libnotify-version; mv -v /usr/share/doc/libnotify{,-&libnotify-version;} fi Installed Program Installed Library Installed Directories notify-send libnotify.so /usr/include/libnotify and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnotify Short Descriptions notify-send is a command used to send notifications notify-send libnotify.so contains the libnotify API functions libnotify.so