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Introduction to libnotify

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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Package Information

• Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/libnotify/0.8/libnotify-0.8.6.tar.xz
• Download MD5 sum: 09bce743badbe1c180ce14d92539afb9
• Download size: 108 KB
• Estimated disk space required: 2.2 MB
• Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU

libnotify Dependencies

Required

GTK-3.24.49

Optional (Required if building GNOME)

GLib-2.84.1 (with GObject Introspection)

Optional

Gi-DocGen-2025.3 and xmlto-0.0.29

Required (runtime)

notification-daemon-3.20.0,xfce4-notifyd-0.9.7, or lxqt-notificationd-2.2.0

Note

GNOME Shell and KDE KWin provide their own notification daemons.

Installation of libnotify

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-0.8.6 mv -v /usr/share/doc/libnotify{,-0.8.6} fi

Contents

Installed Program: notify-send

Installed Library: libnotify.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/libnotify and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnotify

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