histui is a highly themeable GTK4 notification daemon for Wayland with persistent history.
histui displays desktop notifications with full CSS theming support, stores them for later browsing, and includes a TUI and CLI for querying your notification history.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Notification daemon:
- Fully themeable – Create your own themes with CSS, custom layouts, icons, and sounds
- Theme packs – Self-contained themes with styling, layout, and audio in one directory
- Hot reload – Edit themes live without restarting
- Bundled themes – Includes default, minimal, compact, detailed, and catppuccin
- Light/dark mode – Automatic switching based on system preference
- Smart icons – App aliases with Nerd Font fallbacks for 350+ apps
- Clickable notifications – URLs and deep links open the source app
- Audio alerts – Per-urgency sounds with customizable audio files
- Wayland native – Layer-shell support for Hyprland, Sway, river, and more
- History & CLI:
- Persistent history – Notifications saved to SQLite across sessions
- TUI browser – Navigate history with vim-style keybindings
- Powerful filtering – Query by app, urgency, time range, regex
- Pipeline friendly – JSON, dmenu, and ID output formats
- Waybar integration – Real-time notification counts
- Flexible deployment:
- Standalone daemon – Replace dunst/mako entirely
- Monitor mode – Keep your existing daemon, just add history tracking
- Adapter system – Import history from dunst, mako, or swaync
Website: github.com/jmylchreest/histui
Support:
Developer: John Mylchreest
License: MIT License
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