My dunst dunstrc

Just a dump of the inline documentation for the EndeavourOS dunst user defaults.

Global Settings

[global]

Display

Which monitor notifications should be displayed on.

I only have one, so it’s an easy choice.

monitor = 0

Display notification on focused monitor. Possible modes are:

mouse

follow mouse pointer

keyboard

follow window with keyboard focus

none

don’t follow anything

keyboard needs a window manager that exports the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW property. This should be the case for almost all modern window managers.

If this option is set to mouse or keyboard, the monitor option will be ignored.

follow = mouse

The geometry of the window: [{width}]x{height}[+/-{x}+/-{y}]

The geometry of the message window.

The height is measured in number of notifications everything else in pixels. If the width is omitted but the height is given ("-geometry x2"), the message window expands over the whole screen (dmenu-like). If width is 0, the window expands to the longest message displayed. A positive x is measured from the left, a negative from the right side of the screen. Y is measured from the top and down respectively.

The width can be negative. In this case the actual width is the screen width minus the width defined in within the geometry option.

geometry = "0x0-30+20"

Show how many messages are currently hidden (because of geometry).

indicate_hidden = yes

Shrink window if it’s smaller than the width. Will be ignored if width is 0.

shrink = no

The transparency of the window. Range: [0; 100].

This option will only work if a compositing window manager is present (e.g. xcompmgr, compiz, etc.).

transparency = 0

The height of the entire notification. If the height is smaller than the font height and padding combined, it will be raised to the font height and padding.

notification_height = 0

Draw a line of separator_height pixel height between two notifications.

Set to 0 to disable.

    separator_height = 2

Padding between text and separator.

padding = 8

Horizontal padding.

horizontal_padding = 8

Defines width in pixels of frame around the notification window.

Set to 0 to disable.

frame_width = 3

Defines color of the frame around the notification window.

frame_color = "#aaaaaa"

Define a color for the separator. possible values are:

auto

dunst tries to find a color fitting to the background

foreground

use the same color as the foreground

frame

use the same color as the frame

Anything else will be interpreted as a X color.

separator_color = auto

Sort messages by urgency.

sort = yes

Don’t remove messages, if the user is idle (no mouse or keyboard input) for longer than idle_threshold seconds.

Set to 0 to disable.

A client can set the ’transient’ hint to bypass this. See the rules section for how to disable this if necessary

idle_threshold = 120

Text

font = JetBrains Mono Medium 10

The spacing between lines. If the height is smaller than the font height, it will get raised to the font height.

line_height = 0

Possible values are:

full

Allow a small subset of html markup in notifications. For a complete reference see http://developer.gnome.org/pango/stable/PangoMarkupFormat.html.

strip

This setting is provided for compatibility with some broken clients that send markup even though it’s not enabled on the server. Dunst will try to strip the markup but the parsing is simplistic so using this option outside of matching rules for specific applications IS GREATLY DISCOURAGED.

no

Disable markup parsing, incoming notifications will be treated as plain text. Dunst will not advertise that it has the body-markup capability if this is set as a global setting.

It’s important to note that markup inside the format option will be parsed regardless of what this is set to.

markup = full

The format of the message. Possible variables are:

Variable	Represents
%a	appname
%s	summary
%b	body
%i	iconname (including its path)
%I	iconname (without its path)
%p	progress value if set ([ 0%] to [100%]) or nothing
%n	progress value if set without any extra characters
%%	Literal %

Markup is allowed

format = "<b>%s</b>\n%b"

Alignment of message text.

Possible values are “left”, “center” and “right”.

alignment = center

Show age of message if message is older than show_age_threshold seconds.

Set to -1 to disable.

show_age_threshold = 60

Split notifications into multiple lines if they don’t fit into geometry.

word_wrap = yes

When word_wrap is set to no, specify where to make an ellipsis in long lines.

Possible values are “start”, “middle” and “end”.

ellipsize = middle

Ignore newlines \n in notifications.

ignore_newline = no

Stack together notifications with the same content

stack_duplicates = true

Hide the count of stacked notifications with the same content

hide_duplicate_count = false

Display indicators for URLs (U) and actions (A).

show_indicators = yes

Icons

Align icons left/right/off

icon_position = left

Scale larger icons down to this size, set to 0 to disable

max_icon_size = 32

icon_path = /usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/status/:/usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/devices/

# Paths to default icons.

History

Should a notification popped up from history be sticky or timeout as if it would normally do.

sticky_history = yes

Maximum amount of notifications kept in history

history_length = 20

Misc / Advanced

dmenu path.

dmenu = /usr/bin/dmenu -p dunst:

Browser for opening urls in context menu.

Defaults to Brave. I use Firefox.

browser = /usr/bin/firefox

Always run rule-defined scripts, even if the notification is suppressed

always_run_script = true

Define the title of the windows spawned by dunst

title = Dunst

Define the class of the windows spawned by dunst

class = Dunst

Print a notification on startup.

This is mainly for error detection, since dbus (re-)starts dunst automatically after a crash.

startup_notification = false

Manage dunst’s desire for talking

Can be one of the following values:

crit

Critical features. Dunst aborts

warn

Only non-fatal warnings

mesg

Important Messages

info

all unimportant stuff

ebug

all less than unimportant stuff

verbosity = mesg

Define the corner radius of the notification window in pixel size. If the radius is 0, you have no rounded corners.

The radius will be automatically lowered if it exceeds half of the notification height to avoid clipping text and/or icons.

corner_radius = 5

Legacy

Use the Xinerama extension instead of RandR for multi-monitor support. This setting is provided for compatibility with older nVidia drivers that do not support RandR and using it on systems that support RandR is highly discouraged.

By enabling this setting dunst will not be able to detect when a monitor is connected or disconnected which might break follow mode if the screen layout changes.

force_xinerama = false

Mouse

Defines action of mouse event

Possible values are:

none

Don’t do anything.

do_action

If the notification has exactly one action, or one is marked as default, invoke it. If there are multiple and no default, open the context menu.

close_current

Close current notification.

close_all

Close all notifications.

mouse_left_click = do_action
mouse_middle_click = close_all
mouse_right_click = close_current

Experimental

Experimental features that may or may not work correctly. Do not expect them to have a consistent behaviour across releases.

[experimental]

Calculate the dpi to use on a per-monitor basis.

If this setting is enabled the Xft.dpi value will be ignored and instead dunst will attempt to calculate an appropriate dpi value for each monitor using the resolution and physical size. This might be useful in setups where there are multiple screens with very different dpi values.

per_monitor_dpi = false

Shortcuts

Shortcuts are specified as [modifier+][modifier+]...key

Available modifiers are “ctrl”, “mod1” (the alt-key), “mod2”, “mod3” and “mod4” (windows-key).

Xev might be helpful to find names for keys.

[shortcuts]

Close notification.

close = ctrl+space

Close all notifications.

close_all = ctrl+shift+space

Redisplay last message(s).

On the US keyboard layout “grave” is normally above TAB and left of “1”. Make sure this key actually exists on your keyboard layout, e.g. check output of xmodmap -pke

history = ctrl+grave

Context menu.

context = ctrl+shift+period

Low Urgency Notifications

IMPORTANT: colors have to be defined in quotation marks. Otherwise the “#” and following would be interpreted as a comment.

[urgency_low]
background = "#2b2b2b"
foreground = "#ffffff"
timeout = 5

Normal Urgency Notifications

[urgency_normal]
background = "#2b2b2b"
foreground = "#ffffff"
timeout = 5

Critical Urgency Notifications

[urgency_critical]
background = "#900000"
foreground = "#ffffff"
frame_color = "#ff0000"
timeout = 5

Everything else

There’s a lot. See the EndeavourOS Qtile Community Edition dunstrc for the whole thing.

Added to vault 2024-01-15. Updated on 2024-02-01