https://github.com/hashworks/irssi-libnotify

A Perl script plugin for irssi that uses D-Bus and libnotify to give desktop users alerts when messages of interest appear.
https://github.com/hashworks/irssi-libnotify

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A Perl script plugin for irssi that uses D-Bus and libnotify to give desktop users alerts when messages of interest appear.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hashworks/irssi-libnotify
• Owner: hashworks
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2015-03-04T09:54:32.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-05-21T09:31:56.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-19T22:48:46.493Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Perl
• Size: 199 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# irssi-libnotify

This is a fork of [stickster's irssi-libnotify](http://code.google.com/p/irssi-libnotify/).


The only difference are more configuration variables:

* notify_sh_path - set the path of `irssi-notifier.sh`

* notify_start_offset - disable notifications for X seconds after load, defaults to 0

irssi-libnotify is a slightly nicer D-Bus approach that plays nicely with the GNOME Shell's notification area.  If you are looking for the older, simpler version using libnotify, simply check out the old-libnotify branch instead.

To make this script work better for people who use irssi remotely via SSH (often with screen), I've separated out the actual notifier into a small listener program.  That piece is written in Python so it should be easy to read and understand.

### REQUIREMENTS

 * irssi

 * libnotify >= 0.7  (but slightly older libnotify may work)

 * pygobject >= 3.0

 * perl-HTML-Parser

### INSTRUCTIONS

1. Clone this repository.

2. Excecute `notify-listener.py` when your desktop environment is loaded.

3. Link `notify.pl` to `$HOME/.irssi/scripts/` (or `$HOME/.irssi/scripts/autorun/`).

4. Set the path of `irssi-notifier.sh` by `/SET notify_sh_path `

5. Load the script by `/load notify.pl` or `/load autorun/notify.pl`

If you are running irssi remotely, currently your remote machine account would need to be able to SSH back to your local box without a passphrase.  You'll need to set that up yourself, using 'ssh-copy-id' or another method.





Then in irssi, use `/SET notify_remote ` to activate the remote notification bit.  Replace  with the name or IP address of the local machine you're on, *as it would be known to the remote machine*.  This is most useful if you're on the same local network with the other box; firewalls or other non-local routing will probably make it difficult to use this feature.





In the future I'm going to add a feature to provide messages raw over a remotely forwarded port, so you won't need any special key handling or have to worry about firewalls and other such stuff. Thanks for trying this out.