- Config:
dunst/.config/dunst/dunstrc - Placement: Top-right corner with a 30px × 60px offset; notifies follow the mouse focus so alerts appear on the active display.
- Sizing:
- Width 400px, height up to 300px.
- Progress bar enabled (10px height, width 150–300px).
- 15px text padding and a 3px frame colored
#cfcbc9.
- Look & Feel:
- Terminus font at size 18 for readability.
- Separator lines between stacked notifications.
- Transparency disabled (
0) to keep contrast consistent with Catppuccin and Polybar themes.
- Behavior:
- Idle threshold of 120 seconds keeps notifications until you return.
- Sorting by urgency ensures critical alerts surface first.
history_length = 20(default) allows recent review—adjust if you need more persistence.
- Urgency Colors:
- Low: background
#1a1a1a, foreground#888888. - Normal: background
#141c21, foreground#cfcbc9. - Critical: same background with a red frame and 5s timeout.
- Low: background
- Integration: i3 and Xmonad launch Dunst on startup. Restart it with
pkill dunst; dunst &after edits to apply changes without logging out.