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Author: Steve Litt
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?
On Sat, 7 Mar 2020 16:47:00 -0800
tom <tom@???> wrote:

> The ONLY thing I am using DBUS for on my systems is for notifications.
> Be it have something blip in the top right of my monitor when I get an
> email, or gmusicplayer changes a song. psi-plus (XMPP client) is able
> to read MPRISv2 over dbus to update my presence information with the
> song i'm currently listening to.
>
> Other than that that is the only thing dbus is useful for that I can
> see. But I am sure there is a more elegant way to handle desktop
> notifications.


It's called dunst, and it's pretty good.


SteveT

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