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 11.3 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/libnotify/0.8/libnotify-0.8.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/libnotify/0.8/libnotify-0.8.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 1495f279b255b4493ac3588559823158
Download size: 104 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU
GTK-Doc-1.33.2 and xmlto-0.0.28
notification-daemon-3.20.0 or xfce4-notifyd-0.8.1
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
GNOME Shell and KDE KWin provide their own notification daemons.
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libnotify
Install libnotify by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson --prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-Dgtk_doc=false \
-Dman=false .. &&
ninja
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install &&
mv -v /usr/share/doc/libnotify{,-0.8.1}
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-Dgtk_doc=false: Remove
this parameter if GTK-Doc is
installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API
documentation.