Dunst Alternatives

Dunst is described as 'Lightweight and customizable notification daemon' and is an app. There are seven alternatives to Dunst for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Sway, Wayland, Alpine Linux and openSUSE apps. The best Dunst alternative is Sway Notification Center, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Dunst are fnott, Linux Notification Center, Wired Notify and mako.

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    A simple notification daemon with a GTK gui for notifications and the control center

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Sway
    • openSUSE
    • Gentoo
    • Fedora
    • Alpine Linux
     
    • Sway Notification Center is the most popular Linux alternative to Dunst.

    • Sway Notification Center is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Dunst.

    • Sway Notification Center is Free and Open SourceDunst is also Free and Open Source
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    Keyboard driven and lightweight Wayland notification daemon for wlroots-based compositors.

    7 fnott alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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    mako is a lightweight notification daemon for Wayland compositors that support the layer-shell protocol.

    7 mako alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    • Sway
     
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    Notification-daemon replacement for lightweight window managers like dwm and wmii. It receives and displays notifications from the widely used Desktop Notifications speficiation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Python
     
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    A notification system for tiling window managers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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