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.
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Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/libnotify/0.8/libnotify-0.8.4.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 00e2b66b100ea57106dee8988c40fe77
Download size: 108 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
GLib-2.84.0 (with GObject Introspection)
Gi-DocGen-2025.3 and xmlto-0.0.29
notification-daemon-3.20.0, xfce4-notifyd-0.9.7, or lxqt-notificationd-2.1.1
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 \
-D gtk_doc=false \
-D man=false \
.. &&
ninja
This package does not come with a test suite.
If you have Gi-DocGen-2025.3 installed and wish to build the API documentation for this package, issue:
sed "/docs_dir =/s@\$@ / 'libnotify'@" \
-i ../docs/reference/meson.build &&
meson configure -D gtk_doc=true &&
ninja
Now, as the root user:
ninja install &&
if [ -e /usr/share/doc/libnotify ]; then
rm -rf /usr/share/doc/libnotify-0.8.4
mv -v /usr/share/doc/libnotify{,-0.8.4}
fi
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.