Desktop::Notify(3) Communicate with the Desktop Notifications framework

VERSION

Version 0.03

SYNOPSIS


use Desktop::Notify;

# Open a connection to the notification daemon
my $notify = Desktop::Notify->new();

# Create a notification to display
my $notification = $notify->create(summary => 'Desktop::Notify',
body => 'Hello, world!',
timeout => 5000);

# Display the notification
$notification->show();

# Close the notification later
$notification->close();

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a Perl interface to the Desktop Notifications framework.

The framework allows applications to display pop-up notifications on an X desktop. This is implemented with two components: a daemon that displays the notifications, and a client library used by applications to send notifications to the daemon. These components communicate through the DBus message bus protocol.

More information is available from <http://trac.galago-project.org/wiki/DesktopNotifications>

This module serves the same purpose as "libnotify", in an object-oriented Perl interface. It is not, however, an interface to "libnotify" itself, but a separate implementation of the specification using Net::DBus.

METHODS

new %opts

Connect to the notification daemon. %opts can include the following options:
app_name
The application name to use for notifications. Default is "basename($0)"
bus
The Net::DBus mesage bus to use. Default is to call Net::DBus->session, which is usually where notification-daemon can be reached.
service
The DBus service name of the daemon. Default is org.freedesktop.Notifications.
objpath
The path to the notifications DBus object. Default is /org/freedesktop/Notifications.
objiface
The DBus interface to access the notifications object as. Default is org.freedesktop.Notifications.

create %params

Creates a new notification object that can be displayed later. This will return a Desktop::Notify::Notification object; see that module for information about using it.

close_callback $coderef

Sets a user-specified function to be called whenever a notification is closed. It will be called with one argument, which is the Notification object that was just closed.

AUTHOR

Stephen Cavilia, "<sac at atomicradi.us>"

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-desktop-notify at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Desktop-Notify>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. 

    perldoc Desktop::Notify

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2007 Stephen Cavilia, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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