Volnoti is a lightweight volume notification daemon for GNU/Linux and other POSIX operating systems. It is based on GTK+ and D-Bus and should work with any sensible window manager. The original aim was to create a volume notification daemon for lightweight window managers like LXDE or XMonad. It is known to work with a wide range of WMs, including GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, XMonad, i3 and many others. The source code is heavily based on the GNOME notification-daemon.

• Arch Linux - available in AUR
• Gentoo - ebuild in Bugzilla

You need the following libraries to compile Volnoti yourself. Please install them through the package manager of your distribution, or follow installation instructions on the projects' websites.

• D-Bus
• D-Bus Glib
• GTK+ 2.0
• GDK-Pixbuf 2.0

You can compile it with standard GCC, with make and pkg-config installed, and you will need autoconf and automake if you choose to compile the Git version.

Start by downloading the source code from GitHub:

$ git clone git://github.com/davidbrazdil/volnoti.git
$ cd volnoti

Let Autotools create the configuration scripts:

$ ./prepare.sh

Then just follow the basic GNU routine:

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install

You can have the .tar.gz source archive prepared simply by calling a provided script:

$ ./package.sh

Download the .tar.gz source archive from the GitHub page, and then extract its contents by calling:

$ tar xvzf volnoti-*.tar.gz

Then just follow the basic GNU routine:

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install

Firstly, you need to running the daemon (add it to your startup applications):

$ volnoti

Consult the output of volnoti --help if you want to see debug output ot don't want the application to run as a daemon. You can also change some parameters of the notifications (like their duration time) through the parameters of the daemon.

Once the daemon is running, you can run for example:

$ volnoti-show 25

to show a notification for volume level 25%. To show a notification for muted sound, call:

$ volnoti-show -m

The best way to do this is to create simple script and attach it to the hot-keys on your keyboard. But this depends on your window manager and system configuration.

Some parameters of the notifications can be changed through the parameters of the daemon. To learn more, run:

$ volnoti --help

All the images are stored in /usr/share/pixmaps/volnoti (depending on the chosen prefix during configuration phase) and it should be easy to replace them with your favourite icons.

• Faenza Icon Set (tiheum.deviantart.com)
• Notification-daemon (www.gnome.org)
• Gopt (www.purposeful.co.uk/software/gopt)