Re: [STUMP] How to include Slack Notification into mode line

[York Zhao]

Thank you so much Javier for the detailed explanation, it works beautifully now!

The only problem is that if I miss a message, I may have to press "C-t m" repeatedly to "search" for previous messages. Is there a way to show all the messages, similar to Emacs's *Messages* buffer?

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 12:50 AM, Javier Olaechea <address@hidden> wrote:

Short-version:

You can use :: to access internal symbols of a package. So the code in my previous email should be amended to 

(load-module "notify")

(notify:notify-server-on)

or 

(load-module "notify")

(notify::notify-server-toggle)

Long version:

# is a non-terminating dispatching macro character, which means that the meaning is determined by the character following the sharp-sign (#). #: creates an is an uninterned symbol, that is a symbol that doesn't belong to a package. They are normally used for package designators among other things. In the case of  (in-package #:notify), #:notify stands in (denotes) the package notify. #' is short hand notation for accessing the function namespace. Because funcall takes a function designator we can get away with passing it a symbol and it will be coerced it to the function bound to that symbol in the function namespace.

Hope that clears things up

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 10:31 PM, York Zhao <address@hidden> wrote:

Thank you very much for your detailed instruction Javier!

I'm very confused by the package name "#:notify". What does the "#" prefix mean? I can only call the functions inside this package by:

  (in-package #:notify)
  (notify-server-on)

But I don't want to introduce a namespace only to call one or two functions. I want to be able to call the function with namespace prefix like:

  (notify:notify-server-on)

But this doesn't work. What did I do wrong?

Thanks,

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Javier Olaechea <address@hidden> wrote:

Upon reading the README.md I've realized the instructions could be written in a

more straightforward manner. All you have to do for the contrib to work is put

the following lines in your rc file.

(load-module "notify")

(notify-server-on) ; or (notify-server-toggle)

With that in your rc file show-notification would run every time a slack

notification, or any other notification, is sent. In the case of

show-notification that means using the message box that StumpWM for its

messages.

If you would like that the notification be displayed in a different manner you

would have to change the function stored in *notification-received-hook* (which

incidentally is not a hook, hooks are lists of functions). For example Ubuntu

comes with libnotify which you can use from the CLI through notify-send. One

could use libnotify by placing the following code it its rc-file after loading

the notify module.

(defun libnotify-show-notification (app icon summary body)

  (stumpwm:run-shell-command

   (format nil "notify-send --app-name=~A --icon=~A \"~A\" \"~A\""

           app

           icon

           summary

           body)) )

(setf notify:*notification-received-hook* #'libnotify-show-notification)

Cheers

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 2:27 PM, York Zhao <address@hidden> wrote:

I still have no idea how to get "notify" working. Would it be possible for someone to provide me a bit more instruction as to how to get Slack notifications in StumpWM? The following is my ./stumpwm.d/init.lisp:

;; -*-lisp-*-

(in-package :stumpwm)

;; Bind "c" to gnome-terminal instead of xterm
(define-key *root-map* (kbd "c") "exec gnome-terminal")

(setf *mode-line-position* :bottom)
(mode-line)

(add-to-load-path "/path/to/stumpwm-contrib/util/notify")
;; (load-module "notify")

(emacs)

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 8:47 AM, York Zhao <address@hidden> wrote:

Thank you very much Javier. Because I'm new to Common Lisp, it would be a lot easier for me if I could have some usage information with examples for this "notify" package. Could you point me to some of these information as I didn't find them on the GitHub link.

Have a great day,

York

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 10:18 PM, Javier Olaechea <address@hidden> wrote:

The notify contrib should display slack notifications

https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm-contrib/tree/master/util/notify

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 2:26 PM, York Zhao <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi list,

I'm using Linux Mint 17.3 at home, and 18.3 at work. I'm trying to use StumpWM. However, since we use Slack at work, I have to be able to get notified whenever new slack messages arrive. Without this ability, StumpWM would be useless for me. I've tried to run `gnome-panel' but all I got was a black band at the top of the screen showing nothing. Is it possible to have this notification in mode line?

Thanks in advance,

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