go-notifier

Go-Notifier

go-notifier is a gui application intended for showing periodic notification received from another service.

Example

# start event generator
$> python3 server.py &

# start notification listener
$> go-notifier --address localhost:9999 --icon icon.ico --name Notifier

Message format

Current socket transport implementation uses \n-separated single-line json message (see server.py):

{"tooltip":"tip","title":"title","info":"info"}\n

{
  "tooltip": "program title",
  "title": "popup header",
  "info": "popup text"
}

Command-line arguments

go-notifier [address] [icon]
--address value  tcp address for socket server (default: "localhost:9998")
--icon value     notification icon path (default: "icon.ico")

Licensing

This software is issued under GPLv3 license because of using github.com/esiqveland/notify library under Linux. However, Windows version does not use it and could be licensed under MIT/BSD.