pa-notify(1)

💅 pa-notify — the volume-notification bestie

ok so real talk, this is the manual page for pa-notify, a lil user-manual icon from the pa-notify(1) section. she's tiny, she's useful, and she's about to make your volume go 🔔✨

✨ NAME ✨

pa-notify — PulseAudio or PipeWire volume notification 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pa-notify [OPTIONS]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: pa-notify is your PulseAudio or PipeWire volume notification bestie 🫶 she literally goes and gets the info from PulseAudio using libpulse, and then she sends you a notification using libnotify. that's it. that's the whole vibe check and she ate 💅

libpulse = where the info comes from. libnotify = where the cute popup goes. match made in heaven fr fr ✨

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -h, --help — shows you the help options, iykyk. your "wait what does this do again" button 🙈
• -d, --debug — turns on debug information 🐛 so you can see all the lil behind-the-scenes deets. obsessed with transparency honestly
• -t, --timeout — notification timeout, counted in seconds ⏱️ and the values are iconic:
  • -1 — the default notification timeout (so like, whatever your setup already does, she's not gonna argue) 🎀
  • 0 — notification never expires 😭 she stays. forever. main character energy, she simply refuses to leave the screen 👑
• -u, --urgency — notification urgency, and you got three flavours 🌈:
  • 0 — low 🌸
  • 1 — normal ✨
  • 2 — critical 🔥 (dramatic. urgent. unmissable.)

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

just run her, no cap:

pa-notify

that's the whole thing. she pops off on her own 💜

ngl bestie, this page is short and sweet — no bugs listed, no warnings, no environment variables, no files, no exit statuses in here. just vibes and four options. don't go looking for exits that aren't listed, fr fr 🙈

sign-off time 🎀 this lil manual is for pa-notify, dated 25 July 2021 — that's the version/date energy on the footer, and we're keeping it cute and keeping it exact. bye bestie, go notify some volumes 💖🦋✨