How to get notifications on awesomewm?

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I am running Qubes 4.1 and awesomewm version v4.3. I was using dunst package before with i3wm for notifications on which qubes get start/stopped, etc. But with awesomewm, I removed the dunst package, since awesomewm seems to import its own notification tool called “naughty” in its rc.lua file. Problem is, after removing dunst, I am not getting any notifications from the QubesOS now. How does awesomewm users get their notifications?

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Use whatever you used before (i.e. dunst).

notifications are not related to the WM you use at all. naughty is not a notification server.

Side note: IIRC Qubes uses 2 different notifcation servers at the same time (one for root, one for the regular user). That’s a packaging bug.

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Thanks for the reply.

Use whatever you used before

So, no use for the naughty notification module that comes with the awesomewm? I don’t like having more than one package assuming an overlapping role with each other (in this case naughty module and dunst). But I will use dunst if there is no one that can help me learn using naughty with QubesOS notifications.

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I was talking about the notification server run inside each VM.

awesomeWM doesn’t run there but in dom0, so you can’t use the naughty module for VM notifications.

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OK. But dunst is able to get qube start/shutdown, usb plug-in/plug-out notifications. Why can’t awesomewm naughty do that?

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So you were talking about the dom0 notification server.

And if I understand the naughty code correctly, it indeed seems to be a notification server and not just a library.

You might be able to configure it at /usr/share/dbus-1/services/ as org.freedesktop.Notifications provider.
However it doesn’t provide any performance benefits over the current default which uses xfce4-notifyd in dom0. Maybe it looks better, I don’t know.

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