mako(1)

✨ mako(1) — the notification daemon bestie ✨

okay so this is mako, section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and babe it is literally the notification daemon for Wayland 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mako [options...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

mako is a graphical notification daemon for Wayland compositors — but only the ones that support the layer-shell protocol, okay? like, that's the vibe check it needs to pass 🫶

So notifications come in over D-Bus, and mako just... displays them. And they stay on screen until you dismiss them — either by clicking on them with your mouse, or via makoctl(1). No cap, that's the whole flow. ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help — shows the help message and then quits. cute little peek at what's available, then bye 👋
• -c, --config — lets you set a custom path to the config file. your config, your rules, your path 💖

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Also!! lowkey important: you can pass global configuration options right on the command line. Passing --key=value is equivalent to a key=value line in the configuration file — same thing, different font fr fr. See mako(5) for the full list of options 👑

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Maintained by Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>, who is assisted by other open-source contributors. For more information about mako development, see https://github.com/emersion/mako 🌈

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

mako(5) makoctl(1)

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ok that's the page!! mako(1), General Commands Manual, dated 2026-03-26 — go forth and get those notifications poppin, bestie 💜🎀🦋