source: xfce/apps/xfce4-notifyd.xml@ 26c597d

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  <!ENTITY xfce4-notifyd-buildsize     "11 MB">
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<sect1 id="xfce4-notifyd" xreflabel="xfce4-notifyd-&xfce4-notifyd-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="xfce4-notifyd.html"?>


  <title>xfce4-notifyd-&xfce4-notifyd-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="xfce4-notifyd">
    <primary sortas="a-xfce4-notifyd">xfce4-notifyd</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to the Xfce4 Notification Daemon</title>

    <para>
      The <application>Xfce4 Notification Daemon</application> is a small
      program that implements the "server-side" portion of the Freedesktop
      desktop notifications specification. Applications that wish to pop up a
      notification bubble in a standard way can use
      <application>Xfce4-Notifyd</application> to do so by sending standard
      messages over <application>D-Bus</application> using the
      org.freedesktop.Notifications interface.
    </para>

    &lfs113_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&xfce4-notifyd-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&xfce4-notifyd-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &xfce4-notifyd-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &xfce4-notifyd-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &xfce4-notifyd-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &xfce4-notifyd-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">The Xfce4 Notification Daemon Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="libnotify"/>,
      <xref linkend="libxfce4ui"/>,
      <xref linkend="xfce4-dev-tools"/><!-- for build only -->, and
      <xref linkend="xfce4-panel"/>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/xfce4-notifyd"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of the Xfce4 Notification Daemon</title>

    <para>
      Install the <application>Xfce4 Notification Daemon</application> by
      running the following commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      This package does not come with a test suite.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      You can test the notification daemon with the command
      <command>notify-send</command>, to be run in a graphical
      environment:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>notify-send -i info Information "Hi ${USER}, This is a Test"</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Program</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          xfce4-notifyd-config
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libnotification-plugin.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/share/themes/Bright/xfce-notify-4.0,
          /usr/share/themes/Default/xfce-notify-4.0,
          /usr/share/themes/Retro/xfce-notify-4.0,
          /usr/share/themes/Smoke/xfce-notify-4.0 and
          /usr/share/themes/ZOMG-PONIES!/xfce-notify-4.0
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="xfce4-notifyd-config">
        <term><command>xfce4-notifyd-config</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a <application>GTK+</application> GUI that allows you to
            change some of your preferences (theme and screen position)
            for the notifications that the
            <application>Xfce4 Notification Daemon</application> displays
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="xfce4-notifyd xfce4-notifyd-config">
            <primary sortas="b-xfce4-notifyd-config">xfce4-notifyd-config</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>