pub struct NotificationHandle { /* private fields */ }
Expand description

A handle to a shown notification.

This keeps a connection alive to ensure actions work on certain desktops.

Implementations§

Waits for the user to act on a notification and then calls invokation_closure with the name of the corresponding action.

Manually close the notification

Executes a closure after the notification has closed.

Example
Notification::new().summary("Time is running out")
                   .body("This will go away.")
                   .icon("clock")
                   .show()
                   .unwrap()
                   .on_close(|| println!("closed"));

Replace the original notification with an updated version

Example
let mut notification = Notification::new().summary("Latest News")
                                          .body("Bayern Dortmund 3:2")
                                          .show()
                                          .unwrap();

std::thread::sleep_ms(1_500);

notification.summary("Latest News (Correction)")
            .body("Bayern Dortmund 3:3");

notification.update();

Watch out for different implementations of the notification server! On plasma5 or instance, you should also change the appname, so the old message is really replaced and not just amended. Xfce behaves well, all others have not been tested by the developer.

Returns the Handle’s id.

Methods from Deref<Target = Notification>§

Overwrite the appname field used for Notification.

Platform Support

Please note that this method has no effect on macOS. Here you can only set the application via set_application()

Set the summary.

Often acts as title of the notification. For more elaborate content use the body field.

Set the subtitle.

This is only useful on macOS, it’s not part of the XDG specification and will therefore be eaten by gremlins under your CPU 😈🤘.

Wrapper for NotificationHint::ImagePath

Wrapper for NotificationHint::SoundName

Set the content of the body field.

Multiline textual content of the notification. Each line should be treated as a paragraph. Simple html markup should be supported, depending on the server implementation.

Set the icon field.

You can use common icon names here, usually those in /usr/share/icons can all be used. You can also use an absolute path to file.

Platform support

macOS does not have support manually setting the icon. However you can pretend to be another app using set_application()

Set the icon field automatically.

This looks at your binaries name and uses it to set the icon.t

Platform support

macOS does not have support manually setting the icon. However you can pretend to be another app using set_application()

Adds a hint.

This method will add a hint to the internal hint hashset. Hints must be of type NotificationHint.

Many of these are again wrapped by more convenient functions such as:

Notification::new().summary("Category:email")
                   .body("This should not go away until you acknoledge it.")
                   .icon("thunderbird")
                   .appname("thunderbird")
                   .hint(NotificationHint::Category("email".to_owned()))
                   .hint(NotificationHint::Resident(true))
                   .show();
Platform support

Most of these hints don’t even have an effect on the big XDG Desktops, they are completely tossed on macOS.

Set the timeout.

This sets the time (in milliseconds) from the time the notification is displayed until it is closed again by the Notification Server. According to specification -1 will leave the timeout to be set by the server and 0 will cause the notification never to expire.

Platform support

This only works on XDG Desktops, macOS does not support manually setting the timeout.

Set the urgency.

Pick between Medium, Low and High.

Platform support

Most Desktops on linux and bsd are far too relaxed to pay any attention to this. macOS it to cool to even have something like this in it’s spec 😊.

👎Deprecated: please use .action() only

Set actions.

To quote http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/0.9/x408.html#command-notify

Actions are sent over as a list of pairs. Each even element in the list (starting at index 0) represents the identifier for the action. Each odd element in the list is the localized string that will be displayed to the user.

There is nothing fancy going on here yet. Carefull! This replaces the internal list of actions!

(xdg only)

Add an action.

This adds a single action to the internal list of actions.

(xdg only)

Set an Id ahead of time

Setting the id ahead of time allows overriding a known other notification. Though if you want to update a notification, it is easier to use the update() method of the NotificationHandle object that show() returns.

(xdg only)

Finalizes a Notification.

Part of the builder pattern, returns a complete copy of the built notification.

Sends Notification to D-Bus.

Returns a handle to a notification

Wraps show() but prints notification to stdout.

Trait Implementations§

Formats the value using the given formatter. Read more

Required for DerefMut

The resulting type after dereferencing.
Dereferences the value.

Allow to easily modify notification properties

Mutably dereferences the value.

Auto Trait Implementations§

Blanket Implementations§

Gets the TypeId of self. Read more
Immutably borrows from an owned value. Read more
Mutably borrows from an owned value. Read more

Returns the argument unchanged.

Calls U::from(self).

That is, this conversion is whatever the implementation of From<T> for U chooses to do.

The type returned in the event of a conversion error.
Performs the conversion.
The type returned in the event of a conversion error.
Performs the conversion.