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please consider an option to create a FIFO at a specified path which dunst continuously reads, displaying notifications as they arrive

for example, a script might redirect stderr (rather than trying to capture it separately from stdout and then calling notify-send, &c.)

command 2> ~/.config/dunst/dunst.fifo

probably best to allow multiple fifos so different rules may be applied to each as need be

can't you create a script that monitors the fifo and calls notify-send?

of course, but I think a significant portion of dunst users might find it useful (not to mention avoiding yet another resident process...)

I don't consider avoidance of a resident process a compelling argument for adding this feature. Also, writing a script which uses standard tools like notify-send (or even some binding to the DBus) seems to be preferred as it would work with other notification daemons besides dunst.