How To Install xfce4-notifyd on CentOS 8
xfce4-notifyd is Simple notification daemon for Xfce
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xfce4-notifyd on CentOS 8.
What is xfce4-notifyd
Xfce4-notifyd is a simple, visually-appealing notification daemon for Xfce that implements the freedesktop.org desktop notifications specification. Features * Themable using the GTK+ theming mechanism * Visually appealing * Supports transparency and fade effects
We can use yum or dnf to install xfce4-notifyd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xfce4-notifyd.
Install xfce4-notifyd on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install xfce4-notifyd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xfce4-notifyd
Install xfce4-notifyd on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install xfce4-notifyd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xfce4-notifyd
How To Uninstall xfce4-notifyd on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the xfce4-notifyd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xfce4-notifyd
xfce4-notifyd Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/xfce4-notifyd-config
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/736114192c86f0bf1178bb5775a962c18c5848
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc/0df0ef51809cbc2345db269673a8dd414488fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3/001337181da38f24c0e0a9a9dded06acc2c79d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/xfce4-notifyd.service
/usr/lib64/xfce4/notifyd
/usr/lib64/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd
/usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libnotification-plugin.so
/usr/share/applications/xfce4-notifyd-config.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.xfce4-notifyd.Notifications.service
/usr/share/doc/xfce4-notifyd
/usr/share/doc/xfce4-notifyd/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xfce4-notifyd/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xfce4-notifyd/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/xfce4-notifyd/README
/usr/share/doc/xfce4-notifyd/TODO
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/xfce4-notifyd.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/xfce4-notifyd.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/xfce4-notifyd.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/xfce4-notifyd.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/xfce4-notifyd.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/notification-disabled-new-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/notification-disabled-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/notification-new-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/status/notification-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/xfce4-notifyd
/usr/share/licenses/xfce4-notifyd/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy_AM/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ie/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-notifyd.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/xfce4-notifyd-config.1.gz
/usr/share/themes/Bright
/usr/share/themes/Bright/xfce-notify-4.0
/usr/share/themes/Bright/xfce-notify-4.0/gtk.css
/usr/share/themes/Default/xfce-notify-4.0
/usr/share/themes/Default/xfce-notify-4.0/gtk.css
/usr/share/themes/Retro
/usr/share/themes/Retro/xfce-notify-4.0
/usr/share/themes/Retro/xfce-notify-4.0/gtk.css
/usr/share/themes/Smoke
/usr/share/themes/Smoke/xfce-notify-4.0
/usr/share/themes/Smoke/xfce-notify-4.0/gtk.css
/usr/share/themes/ZOMG-PONIES!
/usr/share/themes/ZOMG-PONIES!/xfce-notify-4.0
/usr/share/themes/ZOMG-PONIES!/xfce-notify-4.0/gtk.css
/usr/share/xfce4/panel/plugins/notification-plugin.desktop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xfce4-notifyd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
