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diff --git a/doc/en/plugins/simple_notify.txt b/doc/en/plugins/simple_notify.txt index c210f703..5cadf941 100644 --- a/doc/en/plugins/simple_notify.txt +++ b/doc/en/plugins/simple_notify.txt @@ -17,14 +17,31 @@ default), and fill it like this: command = notify-send -i /path/to/poezio/data/poezio_80.png "New message from %(from)s" "%(body)s" --------------------------------------------------------------------- -You can put any command, instead of this one. You can also use the +[source,conf] +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +[simple_notify] +command = echo %{from}s\> %{body}s >> some.fifo +delay = 3 +after_command echo = >> some.fifo +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +You can put any command, instead of these ones. You can also use the special keywords _%(from)s_ and _%(body)s_ that will be replaced directly in the command line by the author of the message, and the body. -The example shown above will display something like this: +The first example shown above will display something like this: image:../../images/simple_notify_example.png["Simple notify example", title="Simple notify example"] +The second example will first write the author and the message in a +fifo, that fifo can locally be read by some other program (was tested +with the xmobar PipeReader command, which displays what is read from a +fifo into a status bar. Be careful, you have two different fifos in +that case, don’t get confused). The delay and command_after options +are used to erase/delete/kill the notification after a certain +delay. In our example it is used to display an empty message in our +xmobar, erasing the notification after 3 seconds. + NOTE: If you set the _exec_remote_ option to _true_ into the link:../configure.html[main configuration file], the command will be executed remotely (as explained in the link:link.html[/link help]). |