Cant use modkey in dunst

[smolandia]

hey all,

So, I am trying to set shortcuts in dunst, specifically for “Close Notification”. I’ve tried every possibilty: ctrl-space, mod1+space, mod4+space (mod4 [windowskey]) is my modkey for i3 but I’ve made sure space in not mapped there to anything. Still no dice. I do a “notify-send”, and hit the shortcut for “close” but the notification does not close. I’ve been banging my head against this for too long now. Does anyone have any idea?

Thanks

[ishaan2479]

Try adding this line in your i3 config:

bindsym $mod+k exec killall dunst

[smolandia]

I’m using the i3-“spin” of manjaro, which has by default in .i3/config

bindsym $mod+Shift+d --release exec “killall dunst; exec notify-send ‘restart dunst’”

…which I run every time I change .config/dunst/dunstrc

[mithrial]

Dunst doesn’t have shortcuts itself, you have to add this to your i3 config:

bindsym $mod+space exec dunstctl close

Edit: Apparently, they added shortcuts back in with 1.8.

[smolandia]

[shortcuts]

    # Shortcuts are specified as [modifier+][modifier+]...key
    # Available modifiers are "ctrl", "mod1" (the alt-key), "mod2",
    # "mod3" and "mod4" (windows-key).
    # Xev might be helpful to find names for keys.
    
    # Close notification.
    close = ctrl+space

…is part of my .config/dunst/dunstrc …So I was assuming this was going to work, but for whatever reason I can’t get these to work.

Your solution of adding “dunstctl” commands and binding them to i3 key-shortcuts works great. Thanks a bunch