daemonless notification without dbus using herbe voidlinux

 

pkill -SIGUSR1 herbe

Dismissed notifications return exit code 2.

Actions

 

ACTION_BUTTON (defaults to right mouse button) or the SIGUSR2 signal

 herbe "Notification body" && echo "This is an action"

herbe "First line" "Second line" "Third line" ...

in bash 

herbe $'First line\nSecond line\nThird line'

herbe "$(ps axch -o cmd:15,%cpu --sort=-%cpu |

  head)"  

Notifications are put in a queue and shown using fifo rule

if stuck 

pkill -SIGKILL herbe

# same as pkill -SIGTERM herbe, terminates every running herbe process
$ pkill herbe

$ pkill -SIGUSR1 herbe
$ pkill -SIGUSR2 herbe 

dummy notify send using herbe 

#!/bin/sh

# Shell script to redirect notify-send calls to herbe. The purpose is to ignore

# options passed to notify-send.

#

# Option parser generated by getoptions

# URL: https://github.com/ko1nksm/getoptions

# LICENSE: Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal

usage() {

printf '%s\n' "${0##*/}: notify-send replacement for herbe" "accepts but ignores all notify-send options."

}

REST=''

parse() {

OPTIND=$(($#+1))

while [ $# -gt 0 ] && OPTARG=; do

case $1 in

--?*=*) OPTARG=$1; shift

eval 'set -- "${OPTARG%%\=*}" "${OPTARG#*\=}"' ${1+'"$@"'}

;;

-[utich]?*) OPTARG=$1; shift

eval 'set -- "${OPTARG%"${OPTARG#??}"}" "${OPTARG#??}"' ${1+'"$@"'}

;;

-[!-]?*) OPTARG=$1; shift

eval 'set -- "${OPTARG%"${OPTARG#??}"}" "-${OPTARG#??}"' ${1+'"$@"'}

OPTARG= ;;

esac

case $1 in

-u | --urgency)

[ $# -le 1 ] && set -- "$1" required && break

OPTARG=$2

_=$OPTARG

shift ;;

-t | --expire-time)

[ $# -le 1 ] && set -- "$1" required && break

OPTARG=$2

_=$OPTARG

shift ;;

-i | --icon)

[ $# -le 1 ] && set -- "$1" required && break

OPTARG=$2

_=$OPTARG

shift ;;

-c | --category)

[ $# -le 1 ] && set -- "$1" required && break

OPTARG=$2

_=$OPTARG

shift ;;

-h | --hint)

[ $# -le 1 ] && set -- "$1" required && break

OPTARG=$2

_=$OPTARG

shift ;;

-? | --help)

usage

exit 0 ;;

--) shift

while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do

REST="${REST} \"\${$(($OPTIND-$#))}\""

shift

done

break ;;

[-]?*) set -- "$1" unknown && break ;;

*) REST="${REST} \"\${$(($OPTIND-$#))}\""

esac

shift

done

[ $# -eq 0 ] && return 0

case $2 in

unknown) echo "unrecognized option '$1'" ;;

noarg) echo "option '$1' doesn't allow an argument" ;;

required) echo "option '$1' requires an argument" ;;

pattern) echo "option '$1' does not match the pattern ($3)" ;;

*) echo "option '$1' validation error: $2"

esac >&2

exit 1

}

parse "$@"

eval set -- "$REST"

herbe "$@" &

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/master/srcpkgs/herbe/template

https://github.com/dudik/herbe 

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dudik/herbe/24557245869662e1885f286037ecc37038a5f791/notify-send