heyjuvi / avizo

A neat notification daemon

Avizo

Avizo is a simple notification daemon, mainly intended to be used for multimedia keys for example with Sway.

Configuration

Avizo can be configured using the configuration file and CLI options.

avizo-client looks for configuration file avizo/config.ini in the standard XDG directories XDG_CONFIG_HOME (defaults to ~/.config) and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (defaults to /etc/xdg), in that order. The first found file is used. Missing configuration file is not an error.

The configuration file must be in INI format and should define keys in section named default. Names of the configuration keys correspond to the CLI options (e.g. block-height).

Any configuration key can be overridden by corresponding CLI option (i.e. CLI options take precedence).

Helper scripts

volumectl

Adjust the sound or mic volume and show Avizo notification.

Requirements:

• POSIX-sh compatible shell (e.g. Busybox ash, dash, ZSH, bash, …)
• common *nix userland (BSD, Busybox or GNU)
• pamixer
• pactl for the -p option (currently playing sink/source) if pamixer is older than 1.6

lightctl

Adjust (display) brightness and show Avizo notification.

Requirements:

• POSIX-sh compatible shell (e.g. Busybox ash, dash, ZSH, bash, …)
• common *nix userland (BSD, Busybox or GNU)
• brightnessctl or light

Sway config

bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec volumectl -u up
bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec volumectl -u down
bindsym XF86AudioMute exec volumectl toggle-mute
bindsym XF86AudioMicMute exec volumectl -m toggle-mute

bindsym XF86MonBrightnessUp exec lightctl up
bindsym XF86MonBrightnessDown exec lightctl down

exec "avizo-service"

Install

From package repository

Avizo is available in the following repositories:

Manually

meson build
ninja -C build install

You may want to specify the installation directory (the above default to /usr/local/bin). In such case you may use

meson -Dprefix=<your/installation/path> build
ninja -C build install

In some cases (like if you want to install the results to /usr/bin), the last command needs to be run with root privileges.

Arch User Repository

A package called avizo is also available in the Arch Linux User Repository.

avizo's Issues

Error message when avizo-service is not running

When I run volumectl raise or any other command while the avizo-service is not running, the error it outputs is this:

** (avizo-client:15885): CRITICAL **: 13:14:04.397: file src/avizo-client.p/avizo_client.c: line 2004: uncaught error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.danb.avizo.service was not provided by any .service files (g-dbus-error-quark, 2)

Can this be changed to something more helpful, like: "avizo-service is not running." ?

lightctl not work correctly

any else, when i increase or decrease the light, simultaneously the indicator not following. thank for reply

How to specify a custom image?

Hi,

I'm trying to define a custom notification for the play-pause button, I didn't undestand how to pass an image to display.

Reading the help command output, I saw that there are two parameters --image-base-dir=PATH and --image-path=PATH.
I tried to pass both, the absolute path without the base-dir, and the relavite one.

I also tried to understand where the already given images are stored, but I suspect that are deployed inside the elf.

Can you give me some advice about it?
Thank you

not output centered in bspwm

Feature request: Allow to raise the volume above 100%

Pavucontrol allows to raise the volume up to 153%.
Since some computers have a low volume with Linux (mainly laptops), would be great to have the option to allow raising over 100%.

e.g.

volumectl --allow-overraise up

# or

volumectl --max=150 up

volumectl -h shows --help as vaild option

undefined reference to 'wl_proxy_add_listener' and DSO issue

Hello,

I have the following issue building avizo:

ninja: Entering directory `build'
[4/12] Compiling Vala source src/config.vala ../src/avizo_client.vala
../src/avizo_client.vala:79.14-80.73: warning: unhandled error `GLib.IOError'
../src/avizo_client.vala:191.3-191.22: warning: unhandled error `GLib.DBusError'
		_service.show(_time);
		^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
../src/avizo_client.vala:191.3-191.22: warning: unhandled error `GLib.IOError'
		_service.show(_time);
		^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Compilation succeeded - 3 warning(s)
[11/12] Linking target src/avizo-service
FAILED: src/avizo-service 
cc  -o src/avizo-service src/avizo-service.p/meson-generated_.._.._avizo-resources.c.o src/avizo-service.p/meson-generated_config.c.o src/avizo-service.p/meson-generated_avizo_service.c.o -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,--start-group /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libgtk-3.so /usr/lib64/libgdk-3.so /usr/lib64/libz.so /usr/lib64/libpangocairo-1.0.so /usr/lib64/libpango-1.0.so /usr/lib64/libharfbuzz.so /usr/lib64/libatk-1.0.so /usr/lib64/libcairo-gobject.so /usr/lib64/libcairo.so /usr/lib64/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libgirepository-1.0.so -lgtk-layer-shell -lm -Wl,--end-group
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/libgdk-3.so: undefined reference to symbol 'wl_proxy_add_listener'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/libwayland-client.so.0: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

However the configure went smoothly:

The Meson build system
Version: 0.58.1
Source dir: /tmp/avizo
Build dir: /tmp/avizo/build
Build type: native build
Project name: avizo
Project version: 1.1
C compiler for the host machine: ccache cc (gcc 11.2.0 "cc (GCC) 11.2.0")
C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.36.1-slack15
Vala compiler for the host machine: valac (valac 0.52.4)
Host machine cpu family: x86_64
Host machine cpu: x86_64
Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2)
Program glib-compile-resources found: YES (/usr/bin/glib-compile-resources)
Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2)
Run-time dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.70.1
Run-time dependency gtk+-3.0 found: YES 3.24.29
Run-time dependency gobject-2.0 found: YES 2.70.1
Run-time dependency gobject-introspection-1.0 found: YES 1.68.0
Configuring config.vala using configuration
Library gtk-layer-shell found: YES
Library m found: YES
Build targets in project: 4

Found ninja-1.10.2 at /usr/bin/ninja

Do you know how I can fix my issue ?

update the readme file to use app_id

otherwise the rules on the README apply to my konsole when I'm in the avizo directory.

for_window [app_id="avizo-service"] border pixel 0
for_window [app_id="avizo-service"] sticky toggle
no_focus [app_id="avizo-service"]

Migrate to GTK4

GTK4 has become stable. Avizo should be migrated and maybe some of the new features come in handy.

Release a new version

Can you please tag a new version?

Consider adding an optional fade-out animation

It’s just an icing on the cake, I don’t know how difficult it may be. It's certainly not worth it if it would be too complicated or require some big dependencies.

lightctl does not show notification with light

$ lightctl raise returns:
lightctl: light returned invalid brigtness: '100.00'
My guess is that light -G always returns a float value but lightctl always checks for an integer and there for quits before showing the notification.

[Feature Request] Command to show current brightness value without changing it

Hi, I'm using hyprland. Even if I don't set any key binding for brightness up or down my fn keys always work. So when I set keybindings lightctl up and lightctl down to FN keys it increases or decreases brightness by 20% instead 10% and shows current brightness inaccurately. It works perfectly when using command line (not using FN keys). So is there any way to use lightctl without changing brightness but showing current brightness?

Ubuntu: Converting , to .

You should add this to lightctl and volume ctl under 'progress':

volumectl
progress=$(echo "$volume" | awk '{ printf "%.2f", ($1 > 100 ? 1 : $1 / 100) }' | sed 's/,/./g')

lightctl:
progress=$(echo "$light" | awk '{ printf "%.2f", $1 / 100 }' | sed 's/,/./g')

On ubuntu, the return is a comma seperated float. 0,30, however the avizo-client requires a punctuation instead. 0.30 This would fix that issue.

I couldnt open a pr.

volumectl cannot unmute

I can mute sound with volumectl mute but then I am not able to unmute it neither with volumectl mute nor with volumectl unmute despite the indicator showing that it's unmuting. It can still be unmuted directly with pactl as shown bellow at the end.

➜  ~ pactl list sinks | grep Mute
	Mute: no
➜  ~ volumectl mute
➜  ~ pactl list sinks | grep Mute
	Mute: yes
➜  ~ volumectl mute
.43
➜  ~ pactl list sinks | grep Mute
	Mute: yes
➜  ~ volumectl unmute
.43
➜  ~ pactl list sinks | grep Mute
	Mute: yes
➜  ~ pactl set-sink-mute $(pactl list short sinks | awk '/RUNNING/{print $1}') no
➜  ~ pactl list sinks | grep Mute
	Mute: no

I am running avizo 1.0-1 from AUR.

Release a new version

Can you please release/tag a new version?

Dark image mic too big

Dark image too big,

and also i don't know how to change image source,

have tried image-base-dir = ~/.config/avizo/icons/ not working

`volumectl` doesn't work due to critical error

Attempted both AUR and manual install.

$ volumectl -u down

** (avizo-client:582066): CRITICAL **: 20:19:21.661: file ../src/avizo_client.vala: line 212: uncaught error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.danb.avizo.service was not provided by any .service files (g-dbus-error-quark, 2)

[Feature request] x-offset

Pretty self explanatory. I was configuring and was looking to place the notification on the right of my screen, but saw that the x-offset key did not change anything, would be cool to see implemented!

When I get the chance I will take a look at the code to see if I can get it working myself.

Thanks for maintaining this!

Make AvizoWindow never having focus

Is it possible to make Gtk/Gdk Tell the compositor that the AvizoWindow must Not bei focussed, so all Inputs are captured by the window that was focussed before?

missing in some dependence ?

of each gtk app i got some love message

test by vala-panel

vala-panel:24418): Gdk-CRITICAL **: 09:45:38.993: gdk_monitor_get_geometry: assertion 'GDK_IS_MONITOR (monitor)' failed

test by volumectl and lightctl

** (avizo-client:24911): CRITICAL **: 09:53:12.070: file ../src/avizo_client.vala: line 151: uncaught error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.danb.avizo.service was not provided by any .service files (g-dbus-error-quark, 2)

as above , what ive missing ?

Notification is sometimes not in the center of the screen

Usually, the notification would appear in the middle of the screen. But sometimes it is moved a bit as seen here. The only way I found to fix this was to restart the service. It could probably also be related to a window manager (I use i3wm) or other things but I have not found any direct cause yet.

Make sure this is using wayland natively

I love this concept. please make sure this is using GDK_BACKEND=wayland. I had to pass GDK_BACKEND=x11 to get this work. Thanks in advance...

Dark microphone mute icons too large

Hi,

The icons for mic_muted_dark and mic_unmuted_dark are too large, and cause the avizo window to look weird.

In general, maybe consider scaling those images in the program itself since I think that would be easier for heavy customization.

Scripts use /bin/sh but depends on non-posix extensions

This causes lightctl to fail on voidlinux, as line 116 causes the script to crash.
Replacing /bin/sh with /bin/bash fixes this

Version in meson.build is incorrect

Hey 👋

Packager for AUR here. The version in meson.build was never updated for version 1.2. I suggest to make a new release 1.2.1 with correct versioning.

Thanks!

Caps / nums lock indicator

Consider adding caps/num lock indicators in addition to brightness and volume, this will help a lot with keyboards with no light indicators tysm for the work you have already done!

Use layer shell

Since this is only useful on wlroots based compositors, it makes sense to use layer shell.

Option to draw to all monitors

Hi

Thanks for this great tool - looks great out of the box and easy to set up. I'm using it with Sway.

It would be great if I could pass an option to avizo to get it to draw to all monitors simultaneously in a multi output configuration.

Often I adjust the system volume while looking at an unfocused monitor. For example, I could have my music player open on desktop 1, and I'm working on desktop 2, but I glance at 1 to see what's playing and adjust the volume with the keyboard. Since the focus is on 2, avizo opens over there, but I don't notice it because I'm looking at the unfocused monitor!

I had a quick look at the code but since I've never done anything with Vala or GTK I didn't get very far!

Hope that makes some sense.

Cheers
Jeff

border doesnt appear to work

here is my config, i am prob being an idiot, but it appears that border-color doesn't work

[default]
background = rgb(40, 42, 54)
border-color = rgba(98, 114, 164, 0.8)
bar-fg-color = rgb(189, 147, 249)
border-width = 5
border-radius = 5

Allow to change position/alignment of the notification

Currently, the notification box is displayed at the center of the screen. I’d like to place it horizontally at e.g. 1/3 of the screen height from the bottom. Unfortunately, I’m not familiar with GTK and cannot figure out how to do that.

@misterdanb, can you please consider this feature or give me some hints how to proceed with implementing this feature?

Blur background

A blurred background would bei wonderful. Is this possible with Wayland + GTK+4?

Cannot build latest version

This is what the latest build from AUR, based on the lastest code, shows:

• exec meson setup --prefix /usr --libexecdir lib --sbindir bin --buildtype plain --auto-features enabled --wrap-mode nodownload -D b_lto=true -D b_pie=true avizo build
  The Meson build system
  Version: 0.59.1
  Source dir: /home/user/.local/cache/paru/clone/avizo/src/avizo
  Build dir: /home/user/.local/cache/paru/clone/avizo/src/build
  Build type: native build
  Project name: avizo
  Project version: 0.0
  C compiler for the host machine: ccache cc (gcc 11.1.0 "cc (GCC) 11.1.0")
  C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.36.1
  Vala compiler for the host machine: valac (valac 0.52.5)
  Host machine cpu family: x86_64
  Host machine cpu: x86_64
  Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (1.7.3)
  Program glib-compile-resources found: YES (/usr/bin/glib-compile-resources)
  Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (1.7.3)
  Run-time dependency glib-2.0 found: YES 2.68.4
  Run-time dependency gtk+-3.0 found: YES 3.24.30
  Run-time dependency gobject-2.0 found: YES 2.68.4
  Library gtk-layer-shell found: YES
  Build targets in project: 4

Found ninja-1.10.2 at /usr/bin/ninja
ninja: Entering directory build' [4/9] Compiling Vala source ../avizo/src/avizo_service.vala FAILED: src/avizo-service.p/avizo_service.c valac -C --target-glib=2.38 --pkg gobject-2.0 --pkg gtk+-3.0 --pkg glib-2.0 --color=always --directory src/avizo-service.p --basedir ../avizo/src --gresources=../avizo/avizo.gresource.xml --pkg=GtkLayerShell-0.1 ../avizo/src/avizo_service.vala error: Package xlib-2.0' not found in specified Vala API directories or GObject-Introspection GIR directories
error: Package GObject-2.0' not found in specified Vala API directories or GObject-Introspection GIR directories error: Package Gio-2.0' not found in specified Vala API directories or GObject-Introspection GIR directories
error: Package cairo-1.0' not found in specified Vala API directories or GObject-Introspection GIR directories error: Package GModule-2.0' not found in specified Vala API directories or GObject-Introspection GIR directories
error: Package Gio-2.0' not found in specified Vala API directories or GObject-Introspection GIR directories error: Package GObject-2.0' not found in specified Vala API directories or GObject-Introspection GIR directories
error: Package cairo-1.0' not found in specified Vala API directories or GObject-Introspection GIR directories error: Package GObject-2.0' not found in specified Vala API directories or GObject-Introspection GIR directories
Compilation failed: 9 error(s), 0 warning(s)
[5/9] Compiling Vala source ../avizo/src/avizo_client.vala
../avizo/src/avizo_client.vala:66.14-67.73: warning: unhandled error GLib.IOError' ../avizo/src/avizo_client.vala:153.3-153.22: warning: unhandled error GLib.DBusError'
_service.show(_time);
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
../avizo/src/avizo_client.vala:153.3-153.22: warning: unhandled error `GLib.IOError'
_service.show(_time);
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Compilation succeeded - 3 warning(s)
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

Thanks!

Add app_id

I want to add blur to Avizo, but for this I need an app_id, it currently has "gtk-layer-shell" and as a title "Layer Shell".That is too generic, it would be incredible something like app_id "avizo", title "Avizo".

This is a capture of the app_id and title values

Use system icon theme

I would love it if I could use my system icon theme!

Add input control/UI

Hello!

This is amazing and I appreciate the effort!

Would it be much work to add input volume control including a graphical display?

I could potentially contribute the control portion as I'm very familiar with shell scripting, but Vala is still new and scary to me so I wouldn't be much help there yet.

Styling/config

It would be nice to be able to have a config file, or a css file, to style the window. It looks like gtk, so it should be possible to style using some css.

Lightctl doesn't change brightness, brightnessctl does work

When I run lightctl the brightness never changes. The overlay is shown.

lightctl raise
lightctl lower

But when I use brightnessctl it does work, but doesn't show the overlay of course.

brightnessctl s +5%
brightnessctl s 5%-

Any way I can debug this? Or have avizo listen to brightnessctl instead?

Running arch on a frame.work laptop