#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 10.1

### Chapter 25. X Libraries

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# libnotify-0.7.9

## Introduction to libnotify

The libnotify library is used to send desktop notifications to a notification daemon, as defined in the Desktop Notifications spec. These notifications can be used to inform the user about an event or display some form of information without getting in the user's way.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-10.1 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/libnotify/0.7/libnotify-0.7.9.tar.xz

- Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/libnotify/0.7/libnotify-0.7.9.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: ccd9c53364174cc8d13e18a1988faa76

- Download size: 96 KB

- Estimated disk space required: 2.9 MB

- Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

### libnotify Dependencies

#### Required

GTK+-3.24.25

#### Optional (Required if building GNOME)

gobject-introspection-1.66.1

#### Optional

GTK-Doc-1.33.2 and xmlto-0.0.28

#### Required (runtime)

notification-daemon-3.20.0 or xfce4-notifyd-0.6.2

### Note

GNOME Shell and KDE KWin provide their own notification daemons.

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libnotify

## Installation of libnotify

Install libnotify by running the following commands:

    mkdir build &&
    cd    build &&

    meson --prefix=/usr -Dgtk_doc=false -Dman=false .. &&
    ninja

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the `root` user:

    ninja install

## Command Explanations

`-Dgtk_doc=false`: Remove this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

## Contents

Installed Program: notify-send
Installed Library: libnotify.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/libnotify and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libnotify

### Short Descriptions

notify-send | is a command used to send notifications
`libnotify.so` | contains the libnotify API functions

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