Beautify your notifications

[SGS]

My co-maintainer is 50 or 60 years younger than I am and can read the small notifications with the red font wonderfully.
Since I don’t want to turn my head so fast to look into the lower right corner anymore I also increased the display time

Since I also use monitors that don’t use the default resolution, here’s an example of how you can customize it to your needs.

Edit the .config/mako/config

My config

anchor=bottom-right
font=monospace 12
background-color=#285577FF
text-color=#FFFFFFFF
width=300
height=600
max-history=10
margin=0,20,20
padding=5
border-size=5
border-color=#4C7899FF
border-radius=3
default-timeout=20000
group-by=summary
icons=1

[grouped]
format=<b>%s</b>\n%b

# makoctl reload // Load last config
# makoctl restore // Load last notify

Feel free to post your configs.

[SGS]

[Bro]

@SGS

My co-maintainer is 50 or 60 years younger than I am

Bah, hah, hah, hah, hah! Hah, hah, hah, hah!

Good for you, man. Good for you. I’m lucky to remember if my zipper is up.

[Ankur]

@SGS

small notifications with the red font wonderfully.

Hmm… I thought that reading red fonts in black background would be easy
Btw, my config looks good to me

[SGS]

@Ankur

Btw, my config looks good to me

That is the nature of things.
It would be totally stupid if you didn’t like it.

It’s just simple, taste differ.

[dwilliam62]

Thank you for this! Great stuff!

[glomar_response]

I know I’m late to the party, but I made a few tweaks to your config @SGS but overall it looks really good! Really enjoy this style of notifications. Thanks!!

anchor=top-right
font=monospace 10
background-color=#285577FF
text-color=#FFFFFFFF
width=350
## height=600
max-history=10
margin=20,20,20
padding=5
border-size=3
border-color=#4C7899FF
border-radius=4
default-timeout=10000
group-by=summary
icons=1

[grouped]
format=<b>%s</b>\n%b

# makoctl reload // Load last config
# makoctl restore // Load last notify

Edit: I know an icon isn’t showing in this notification, but I do have icons set to show when coming from applications and can confirm it works

[BluishHumility]

You can add an icon to your notification with the -i flag.

notify-send -i /path/to/icon/file "message title" "message body"

[glomar_response]

Ah yes thank you! Yeah I’m a fan. Next step in ricing, figure out a notification drawer, then creating a “quick settings panel”. For now I’m playing around with the nwg-dock-hyprland settings. This is becoming obsessive lol.