MERDE-NOTIFY(1) General Commands Manual MERDE-NOTIFY(1)

merde-notifyMERDE notification display

merde-notify

merde-notify reads newline-delimited messages from the session notification FIFO and shows each one as a layer-shell overlay for five seconds. Input lines are limited to 1023 bytes; additional bytes before the newline are discarded. Tabs, control bytes, and repeated whitespace are normalized for display, and the rendered message is limited to 120 bytes. Messages are also appended to notifications.log. The program is normally started and managed by merde(1); users send messages with merdectl(1).

Selects the Wayland display.
Locates notifications.fifo and notifications.log.

The merde-notify utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

FIFO, font, and Wayland failures are written to the MERDE session log described by merde(1).

merde(1), merdectl(1), merde-config(5)

MOUSE August 17, 2026 MERDE-NOTIFY(1)