Runst: Handle desktop notifications neatly on Linux
blog.orhun.dev
blog.orhun.dev
Eh, I dunno. They make sense on a phone, which fundamentally is for contacting a person. The device is all about tasks which are not kicked off by a user. On a computer, though? What, is there some expectation that my computer will start doing things of its own volition? No notification handler is a perfectly good answer.
For cronjobs, I haven’t needed to add any. I guess some must come built in in Ubuntu. Generally these are more like completely background maintenance tasks, to the point where I don’t care to know when they complete.
I could see the point of a task that is sort of “kick it off and it’ll let me know when it is done.” I actually have some tasks that I stick in LSF that could probably benefit from something like that, but in my case they are short-running enough that I just check back in a couple minutes.
The author mentioned some uncool breaking changes but didn’t elaborate.
I'm also using dunst (with qtile). I'm using it since many many years and love it and hate it. I cannot make it work to keep critical notifications on until I acknowledge them with a click. The rest works well. Always keep it simple.
I also remember there have been breaking changes, but I did not recall. I changed my config and got it to it