## 1.5.0 - 2020-07-23
### Added
- `min_icon_size` option to automatically scale up icons to a desired value (#674)
- `vertical_alignment` option to control the text/icon alignment within the notification (#684)
- Ability to configure multiple actions for each mouse event (#705)
- `dunstctl` command line control client (#651)
- RGBA support for all color strings (#717)
- Ability to run multiple scripts for each notification
- `ignore_dbusclose` setting (#732)
### Changed
- `dunstify` notification client is now installed by default (#701)
- Keyboard follow mode falls back to the monitor with the mouse if no window has keyboard focus (#708)
### Fixed
- Overflow when setting a >=40 minute timeout (#646)
- Unset configuration options not falling back to default values (#649)
- Crash when `$HOME` environment variable is unset (#693)
- Lack of antialiasing with round corners enabled (#713)
Fixed:
* max_icon_size not working with dynamic width (#614)
* Failure to parse color strings with trailing comments in the config (#626)
* Negative width in geometry being ignored (#628)
* Incorrect handling of the argument terminator -- in dunstify
* Crash when changing DPI while no notifications are displayed (#630)
* Fullscreen status change not being detected in some cases (#613)
1.4.0 - 2019-03-30
Added
Add support to override frame_color via rules (#498)
Support for round corners (#420)
Ability to reference $HOME in icon paths with ~/ (#520)
Support to customize the mouse bindings (#530)
Command to toggle pause status (#535)
Ability to automatically replace similar notifications (like volume changes) via stack_tag (#552)
Comparison of raw icons for duplicate notifications (#571)
Introduce new desktop-entry filter (#470)
fullscreen rule to hide notifications when a fullscreen window is active (#472)
Added skip_display rule option to skip initial notification display, and include the notification in the history. (#590)
Fixed
Notification age not counting the time while the computer was suspended (#492)
Dunst losing always-on-top status on a window manager restart (#160)
Xpm icons not being recognized
When new notifications arrive, but display is full, important notifications don’t have to wait for a timeout in a displayed notification (#541)
Dunst hanging while the context menu is open (#456)
Having & inside a notification breaking markup (#546)
<I> more notifications don’t occupy space anymore, if there is only a single notification waiting to get displayed. The notification gets displayed directly (#467)
Segfault when comparing icon name with a notification with a raw icon (#536)
Icon size can no longer be larger than the notification when a fixed width is specified (#540)
Changed
Transient notifications no longer skip history by default (#508)
The notification summary no longer accepts markup (#497)
Removed
Dependency on libxdg-basedir (#550)
1.3.2 - 2018-05-06
Fixed
Crash when trying to load an invalid or corrupt icon (#512)
1.3.1 - 2018-01-30
Fixed
Race condition resulting in the service files being empty (#488)
1.3.0 - 2018-01-05
Added
ellipsize option to control how long lines should be ellipsized when word_wrap is set to false (#374)
A beginning tilde of a path is now expanded to the home of the current user (#351)
The image-path hint is now respected, as GApplications send their icon only via this link (#447)
The (legacy) image_data hint is now respected (#353)
If dunst can’t acquire the DBus name, dunst prints the PID of the process holding the name (#458#460)
Increased accuracy of timeouts by using microseconds internally (#379#291)
Support for specifying timeout values in milliseconds, minutes, hours, or days. (#379)
Support for HTML img tags (via context menu) (#428)
Fixed
new_icon rule being ignored on notifications that had a raw icon (#423)
Format strings being replaced recursively in some cases (#322#365)
DBus related memory leaks (#397)
Crash on X11 servers with RandR support less than 1.5. (#413#364)
Silently reading the default config file, if -conf did not specify a valid file (#452)
Notification window flickering when a notification is replaced (#320#415)
Inaccurate timeout in some cases (#291#379)
Changed
Transient hints are now handled (#343#310) An additional rule option (match_transient and set_transient) is added to optionally reset the transient setting
HTML links are now referred to by their text in the context menu rather than numbers (#428)
icon_folders setting renamed to icon_path (#170)
config.def.h and config.h got merged (#371)
The dependency on GTK3+ has been removed. Instead of GTK3+, dunst now requires gdk-pixbuf which had been a transient dependency before. (#334#376)
The _GNU_SOURCE macros had been removed to make dunst portable to nonGNU systems (#403)
Internal refactorings of the notification queue handling. (#411)
Dunst does now install the systemd and dbus service files into their proper location given by pkg-config. Use SERVICEDIR_(DBUS|SYSTEMD) params to overwrite them. (#463)
pkgsrc changes:
- dunst now also needs x11/gtk2 and x11/libXrandr
Changes:
## 1.2.0 - 2017-07-12
### Added
- `always_run_script` option to run script even if a notification is suppressed
- Support for more icon file types
- Support for raw icons
- `hide_duplicate_count` option to hide the number of duplicate notifications
- Support for per-urgency frame colours
- `markup` setting for more fine-grained control over how markup is handled
- `history_ignore` rule action to exclude a notification from being added to the
history
- Support for setting the dpi value dunst will use for font rendering via the
`Xft.dpi` X resource
- Experimental support for per-monitor dpi calculation
- `max_icon_size` option to scale down icons if they exceed a certain size
- Middle click on notifications can be used to trigger actions
- Systemd service file, installed by default
- `%n` format flag for getting progress value without any extra characters
### Changed
- Text and icons are now centred vertically
- Notifications aren't considered duplicate if urgency or icons differ
- The maximum length of a notification is limited to 5000 characters
- The frame width and color settings were moved to the global section as
`frame_width` and `frame_color` respectively
- Dropped Xinerama in favour of RandR, Xinerama can be enabled with the
`-force_xinerama` option if needed
### Deprecated
- `allow_markup` is deprecated with `markup` as its replacement
- The urgency specific command line flags have been deprecated with no
replacement, respond to issue #328 on the bug tracker if you depend on them
### Fixed
- Infinite loop if there are 2 configuration file sections with the same name
- URLs with dashes and underscores in them are now parsed properly
- Many memory leaks
- Category based rules were applied without actually matching
- dmenu command not parsing quoted arguments correctly
- Icon alignment with dynamic width
- Issue when loading configuration files with very long lines
- '\n' is no longer expanded to a newline inside notification text
- Notification window wasn't redrawn if obscured on systems without a compositor
- `ignore_newline` now works regardless of the markup setting
- dmenu process being left as a zombie if no option was selected
- Crash when opening urls parsed from `<a href="">` tags
Dunst is a lightweight replacement for the notification-daemons
provided by most desktop environments. It's very customizable,
doesn't depend on any toolkits and therefore fits in those window
manager centric setups we all love to customize to perfection.
Dunst is a part of the j4tools tools set.
Originally packages in pkgsrc-wip by Mateusz Poszwa.