Libnotify Notifications in Chrome

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Description from extension meta

Properly support libnotify notifications in Chrome.

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This is an extension for Chrome in Linux. It won't do anything for Windows users.

This catches Chrome Webkit notifications from webpages and displays those notifications in native Libnotify (xfce4-notify, notify-osd, etc) popups instead.

This is rewrite of Linux Native Notification for Chrome, which is based on Chromify-OSD. Both of those solutions only work with selected libnotify servers. This aims to work with everything based on libnotify. A list of servers that should work is here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_notifications

Also, the previous solutions are based on NPAPI, which is being phased out. This is a Native Messaging implementation, so you also need to install the "host" portion of this software, which is written in C. You can download that zip file here.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzOewlVTs_tpdTNFckZKeG5HRE0/edit?usp=sharing

Extract it and run the install.sh. Hopefully this can be automated in the future.

TODO:

- make it work with gmail :(

If you are interested, the code base is here:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BzOewlVTs_tpek54TDVNbFFxWlk&usp=sharing

Want a test?

(Notifications API): http://jsfiddle.net/yoshi6jp/Umc9A/
(webkitnotifications API):http://0xfe.muthanna.com/notifyme.html

Latest reviews

François Robichet 2017-01-24

Doesn't work (I'm on Arch)

David Strobach 2016-11-04

Broken and outdated. The worst thing about this extension is that it prevents the desktop notifications from showing altogether.

Aaron Papin 2016-10-23

Needs updating. The extension works fine once you fix it on your own. See: http://askubuntu.com/questions/465727/activate-chrome-native-notifications for help.

Til Ad 2016-05-23

I've looked at the code and having developed a similar extension I think it should work. However I will not install some random binary and I did not care to compile the C stuff myself. Why not have some simple python script instead, which could be easily verified and be much shorter, too?

Alex Kelly 2016-05-18

Tried in Fedora 23, with dev packages installed and after discovering the "host" part that needed done. It didn't work at all. When going to pages that should request authorization, that authorization request never shows up. Disable the extension and they do. Chrome notifications suck, and I was hoping this was going to be the answer to merge it into the OS, but it didn't work for me.

Cassidy James Blaede 2016-03-05

Doesn't work.

Vikram Jit Singh 2015-12-12

Doesn't work on Fedora 23

Anonymous 2015-08-28

I actually got this to work on Arch Linux & Chromium 44, but sadly it cannot intercept Chrome notifications created by extensions. To be fair, the author does say "this catches Chrome Webkit notifications from webpages" and my short-sightedness is my own. If someone does have a need for web notifications then here's how I got this working: * Make sure libcurl and json-c is installed (and their -dev packages if your distro likes to split them up) In invoke_notify.c: * add #include <stdint.h> under the string.h line * remove the "json/" part from the relevant #include line * Build with: gcc -march=native -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -o invoke_notify `pkg-config --cflags --libs libnotify json-c libcurl` invoke_notify.c * Open com.initiated.chrome_libnotify_notifications.json and change the extension ID already in there to gphchdpdmccpjmpiilaabhpdfogeiphf * Get a root shell If using chromium: TARGET=/etc/chromium/native-messaging-hosts/ Chrome: TARGET=/etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts * mkdir -p $TARGET * cd $TARGET * copy com.initiated.chrome_libnotify_notifications.json and invoke_notify into target * edit com.initiated.chrome_libnotify_notifications.json and replace HOST_PATH with $TARGET/invoke_notify (perform the expansion manually in your mind) * make sure the $TARGET directory has 755 permission and is owned by root:root, the json file is 644 and owned by root:root and the invoke_notify binary 755 and root:root

Horațiu Mlendea 2015-08-06

Does not work on Arch Linux x64 with GNOME Shell 3.16.2

Russell Sim 2015-03-01

doesn't work

Anonymous 2014-12-28

Not working

Gergo Tisza 2014-11-22

Does not work on Ubuntu 14.04 / Chrome 39.

Anonymous 2014-09-15

Not working with Ubuntu 14.04

Artem Hluvchynskyi 2014-08-30

Non-functional.