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Mako

Mako is a lightweight Wayland notification daemon. It displays desktop notifications in the top-right corner with the active theme’s colors.

Screenshots coming soon.

Config lives at ~/.config/mako/config.

SettingValue
Fontsans-serif 14
PositionTop-right
Size420x150 max
Margin20px
Padding15px
Border2px, 8px radius
Timeout5 seconds
LayerOverlay (above all windows)
ShortcutAction
Super + ,Dismiss notification
Super + Shift + ,Dismiss all
Super + Ctrl + ,Toggle Do Not Disturb
Super + Alt + ,Show last notification

Edit ~/.config/mako/config. Colors are managed by theme-set.

To change the notification timeout:

default-timeout=10000

To test notifications:

notify-send "Test" "This is a test notification"