dunst
Lightweight and customizable notification daemon (by dunst-project)
picom
A lightweight compositor for X11 (by yshui)
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| dunst | picom | |
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| 42 | 109 | |
| 4,286 | 3,801 | |
| 1.8% | - | |
| 8.8 | 9.5 | |
| 4 days ago | 1 day ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
dunst
Posts with mentions or reviews of dunst.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.
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Cozytile - A Cozy Qtile Rice
OS: Arch Linux WM: Qtile Panel: Qtile bar Launcher: Rofi Notification Daemon: Dunst Terminal: Alacritty Shell: Zsh Compositor: Picom File Manager: Nemo Music Player: Spotify & ncmpcpp
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What do I need other than a window manager?
https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst is a pretty popular notification daemon that comes to mind.
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[dwm] Beginning on linux desktop, first ricing
Notification : dunst
- Can't click on prompts in dunst
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Plasma EOS: Why can't I enable DnD and how to I force disable all notifications forever
Your notifications are not provided by Plasma, but by dunst. Either you installed dunst yourself or something else you installed is dependent on dunst.
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Freedesktop Notification Error!
Are you running something able to act on notification requests from programs, e.g. dunst (which is what i use)?
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[BSPWM] My first rice!
OS: Arch Linux WM: Bspwm Compositor: Picom Launcher/Powermenu: Rofi Status Bar: Polybar Terminal: Alacritty Shell: Zsh Editor: Neovim Notification: Dunst File Manager: Lf PDF Viewer: Zathura Text fonts: JetBrains Mono Nerd Font DOTFILES: here
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KDE-like automounting?
Here's the documentation to create an asynchronous monitor with pyudev. When a device is plugged in, use subprocess to run notify-send and send a notification through dunst with the proper parameters (search "do_action" in the dunst docs), so for example you can bind your left click to mount and your middle click to mount and open
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Strange Blue push notification So guys, I need help. I don't really remember how this kind of push notification appeared on my Cinnamon here. Can you help me to put the default notification back?
The notification in your screenshot looks like dunst. Removing that notification server should bring back the default notifications by Cinnamon's own notification server (which, AFAIK, is built-in).
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Notification on USB plugging / unplugging
You can use dunst for notifications, minimal and lightweight. I use it for my volume and brightness control along with sxhkd. dunst Hope this helps.
picom
Posts with mentions or reviews of picom.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.
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Can't find picom and polybar default config files
(https://github.com/yshui/picom/blob/next/picom.sample.conf)
- ArchLinux sluggish on 4K monitor
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[photo] installing Debian :)
Also I took a census and zero founding members of NWA are "straight outta Picom". That's right, you heard it here first: Not even MC Ren is running Picom.
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FPS drops when scrolling in monocle layout with Picom
Update: after reporting in picom GitHub repo this is temporarily solved by using --no-frame-pacing. Looks like a recent commit causes this. You can view the discussion here: https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/1072
- Zoom in and zoom out in dwm?
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Compositor Options for Animations
NEED HELP TESTING (write your issues here): https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/1052
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[dwm] Beginning on linux desktop, first ricing
Compositor : picom
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In Picom with the rounded-corners setting how do you apply alpha to the menu list?
It looks like this was identified and the repo corrected in Jan (https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/808) but the NixOS package has not been updated since Nov.
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I have two Linux computers which I use for gaming.... somehow the one with slightly inferior hardware gets significantly better performance. I'm trying to figure out why... any ideas?
If you have compositing you are likely using picom. You can check if it's running with ps -A | grep picom. I've never dealt with this issue as I don't really game on linux often, but I'm sure there's a solution somewhere in the github docs or issues. Worst case scenario you could always just kill the process with killall picom whenever you're about to game, and re-enable it with picom -b after. Do note though that currently running windows might bug out a bit when you kill/start the compositor.
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What are WSL limitations compared with a pure linux install?
Picom is broken for me with GLX backend related Github issue.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dunst and picom you can also consider the following projects:
mako - A lightweight Wayland notification daemon
compton - A lightweight compositor for X11 [Moved to: https://github.com/yshui/picom]
awesome - awesome window manager
compton - A compositor for X11.
spicetify-themes - A community-driven collection of themes for customizing Spotify through Spicetify - https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)
rofi - A huge collection of Rofi based custom Applets, Launchers & Powermenus.
wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
gruvbox - Retro groove color scheme for Vim
xfce-patches - Some patches for Xfce's components