weechat-notify-send

A WeeChat script that sends highlight and message notifications through notify-send. It requires libnotify, which provides the notify-send application.

Note that the exact appearance depends on the configuration of your notification system as well as on the used icon.

Requirements

• Python 2.7 or Python >= 3.9 (either CPython or PyPy)
  • Note: The script might work even in older Python 3 releases, but this is not guaranteed.
• notify-send provided by libnotify
  • Debian: libnotify-bin
  • Ubuntu: libnotify-bin
  • Arch Linux: extra/libnotify

Installation

• Put the notify_send.py script to ~/.weechat/python/.

• Add a symbolic link to it in the ~/.weechat/python/autoload/ directory to make the script load automatically when WeeChat starts:

  $ cd ~/.weechat/python/autoload
  $ ln -s ../notify_send.py
  

Options

The script allows you to set the following options, either by running /set plugins.var.python.notify_send.XXX YYY or by using the iset.pl script.

• notify_on_highlights. Send notifications on highlights. Default: on.
• notify_on_privmsgs. Send notifications on private messages. Default: on.
• notify_on_filtered_messages. Send notifications also on filtered (hidden) messages. Default: off.
• notify_when_away: Send also notifications when away. Default: on.
• notify_for_current_buffer: Send also notifications for the currently active buffer. Default: on.
• notify_on_all_messages_in_current_buffer: Send a notification on all messages in the currently active buffer. Default: off.
• notify_on_all_messages_in_buffers: A comma-separated list of buffers for which you want to receive notifications on all messages that appear in them. You can use either short names (#buffer) or full names (network.#buffer). Default: ''.
• notify_on_all_messages_in_buffers_that_match: A comma-separated list of regex patterns of buffers for which you want to receive notifications on all messages that appear in them. The matching is done via re.search(). Default: ''.
• notify_on_messages_that_match: A comma-separated list of regex patterns for which you want to receive notifications for any message that matches the given regular expression. The matching is done via re.search(). Default: ''.
• min_notification_delay. A minimal delay in milliseconds between successive notifications from the same buffer. It is used to protect from floods/spam. Set it to 0 to disable this feature (i.e. all notifications will be shown). Default: 500 milliseconds.
• ignore_messages_tagged_with: A comma-separated list of message tags for which no notifications should be shown. Default: 'notify_none,irc_join,irc_quit,irc_part,irc_status,irc_nick_back,irc_401,irc_402'.
• ignore_buffers: A comma-separated list of buffers from which no notifications should be shown. You can use either short names (#buffer) or full names (network.#buffer). Default: ''.
• ignore_buffers_starting_with: A comma-separated list of buffer prefixes from which no notifications should be shown. Default: ''.
• ignore_nicks: A comma-separated list of nicks from which no notifications should be shown. Default: '-,--,-->'.
• ignore_nicks_starting_with: A comma-separated list of nick prefixes from which no notifications should be shown. Default: ''.
• hide_messages_in_buffers_that_match: A comma-separated list of regex patterns for names of buffers from which you want to receive notifications without messages. Default: ''.
• nick_separator: A separator to be put between a nick and a message. Default: : .
• escape_html: Escapes the <, >, and & HTML characters in notification messages. Default: on.
• max_length: The maximal length of a notification (0 means no limit). Default: 72.
• ellipsis: An ellipsis to be used for notifications that are too long. Default: [..].
• icon: A path to an icon to be shown in notifications. Default: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/weechat.png.
• desktop_entry: Name of the desktop entry for WeeChat. Default: weechat.
• timeout: Time after which the notification disappears (in milliseconds). Set it to 0 to disable the timeout. Default: 5000 (5 seconds).
• transient: When a notification expires or is dismissed, remove it from the notification bar. Set it to off to keep the notification. Default: on.
• urgency: Notification urgency (low, normal, critical). Default: normal.

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Petr Zemek (s3rvac@gmail.com) and contributors.

Distributed under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more details.