Change Notification Systems

Regolith ships with a notification system called Rofication. It is designed to work in the background and not use pop-ups as a way of alerting the user to a new notification. Rather, a small bar item displays the current number of unread notifications and a dialog can activated to interact with the content of the current notifications. This page describes a way to install an alternative notification system which works in a more traditional way.

We will use dunst as an example but similar steps can be used with pretty much any other notification component.

1. Replace rofication with dunst:

   sudo apt install dunst libnotify-bin

   This should remove Rofication automatically as the package-manager sees the conflict and resolves it. If this is not removed automatically, you can do it manually. Also, if you want to remove the remaining configuration, the following works as well:

   sudo apt purge regolith-rofication # remove any remaining config as well

2. Log out and back in.

3. Test your notifications with notify-send test123. You should see a pop-up notification from dunst.