Gotify desktop

Small Gotify daemon to receive messages and forward them as desktop notifications.

Features

• Read Gotify messages, and forward them as standard desktop notification (should work on must Unix variants)
• Forward message priority
• Auto reconnect if server connection is lost (unreliable network, laptop suspend...), and get missed messages
• Automatically download, cache, and show app icons
• Fast and self contained binary (no runtime dependencies)
• Optional features:
  • ignore messages below a given priority level
  • delete messages once received
  • run command on each received message

Installation

From source

You need a Rust build environment for example from rustup.

cargo build --release
strip --strip-all target/release/gotify-desktop
install -Dm 755 -t /usr/local/bin target/release/gotify-desktop

From AUR

Arch Linux users can install the gotify-desktop AUR package.

Configuration

Edit ~/.config/gotify-desktop/config.toml with your server URL and client token, and other settings:

[gotify]
url = "wss://SERVER_DOMAIN:SERVER_PORT"
token = "YOUR_SECRET_TOKEN"
auto_delete = true  # optional, if true, deletes messages that have been handled, defaults to false

[notification]
min_priority = 1  # optional, ignores messages with priority lower than given value

[action]
# optional, run the given command for each message, with the following environment variables set: GOTIFY_MSG_PRIORITY, GOTIFY_MSG_TITLE and GOTIFY_MSG_TEXT.
on_msg_command = "/usr/bin/beep"

Usage

Start gotify-desktop in the background using your favorite init system, desktop environment or windows manager.

License

GPLv3