Introduction to the Xfce4 Notification Daemon
The Xfce4 Notification Daemon 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
Xfce4-Notifyd to do so by sending
standard messages over D-Bus using
the org.freedesktop.Notifications interface.
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Note
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages
properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent
stable versions of the book.
Package Information
The Xfce4 Notification Daemon Dependencies
Required
libnotify-0.8.1, libxfce4ui-4.16.1,
and xfce4-panel-4.16.4
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/xfce4-notifyd
Installation of the Xfce4 Notification Daemon
Prevent installing unused files:
sed -e "s/^systemd_user_in_files =.*/systemd_user_in_files =/" \
-i Makefile.in
Install the Xfce4 Notification
Daemon by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
You can test the notification daemon with the command notify-send:
notify-send -i info Information "Hi ${USER}, This is a Test"