histui – GTK4 notification daemon

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

histui is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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