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.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.0 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/libnotify/0.8/libnotify-0.8.2.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/libnotify/0.8/libnotify-0.8.2.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: ee2d2934a9dcfd5b1305188201e1cd50
Download size: 104 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.3 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU
Gi-DocGen-2023.1 and xmlto-0.0.28
notification-daemon-3.20.0 or xfce4-notifyd-0.8.2
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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 \
-Dgtk_doc=false \
-Dman=false \
.. &&
ninja
This package does not come with a test suite.
If you have Gi-DocGen-2023.1 installed and wish to build the API documentation for this package, issue:
sed "/docs_dir =/s@\$@ / 'libnotify'@" \
-i ../docs/reference/meson.build &&
meson configure -Dgtk_doc=true &&
ninja
Now, as the root user:
ninja install &&
mv -v /usr/share/doc/libnotify{,-0.8.2}
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.