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-7.5 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libnotify/0.7/libnotify-0.7.6.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libnotify/0.7/libnotify-0.7.6.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: a4997019d08f46f3bf57b78e6f795a59
Download size: 276 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4,9 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU
notification-daemon-0.7.6 or xfce4-notifyd-0.2.4
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GNOME Shell and KDE KWin provide their own notification daemons.
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libnotify
Install libnotify by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
--disable-static: This
switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.
--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if
GTK-Doc is installed and you wish
to rebuild and install the API documentation.
Last updated on 2014-02-22 07:06:53 -0800