fnottctl(1)

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version 1.8.0 · 8 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ fnottctl — NAME ✨

fnottctl — bestie's lil remote control for fnott(1) 💖 it's the utility you use to talk to your notification daemon, no cap.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fnottctl dismiss [id]
fnottctl dismiss-with-default-action [id]
fnottctl actions [id]
fnottctl list
fnottctl pause
fnottctl unpause
fnottctl quit
fnottctl --version

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • id — the notification ID you wanna dismiss or pull actions for, obvi. Not sure what the IDs even are? Run fnottctl list and it'll show you the IDs of every notification that's currently active. iykyk 🔥
  • -v, --version — shows the version number and then dips. that's it, that's the whole job 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so, fnottctl is literally how you interact with fnott(1) — dismissing notifications, showing actions, picking actions, the whole vibe. it's giving "remote control but make it ✨notifications✨".

The most common operation is fnottctl dismiss. This will dismiss the highest priority notification. You might want to bind this to a keyboard shortcut in your Wayland compositor configuration. This is the same as right clicking the notification. 👑

To see, and select between, actions associated with the notification, use fnottctl actions. This requires a dmenu-like utility to have been configured in fnott.ini(5). so like… go set that up first bestie 🙈

Finally, you can trigger the notification's default action (an action named default) and dismiss it simultaneously with dismiss-with-default-action. This is the same as left clicking the notification. two things, one command, main character energy fr fr 💖

You can optionally specify a notification ID, to dismiss (or show actions for) a specific notification instead of the highest priority one. so picky, so valid 🎀

For dismiss, there is also the special ID all which will, not unsurprisingly, dismiss all notifications. every single one. gone. slay 🌈

ngl the way all just nukes your entire notification stack is iconic and also a little scary 💀 use it with intention, bestie.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

fnott(1), fnott.ini(5)

and that's the whole page, mwah 😘 this lil slice of the General Commands Manual for fnottctl(1) is dated 2025-08-21 — keep it in your back pocket, you're gonna need it. bye bestie, go dismiss something 🫶🌸

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