2010-05-02 16:43, David De La Harpe Golden skrev:

> FWIW, on my system, notifications popups via libnotify [1] have close
> buttons but they're cosmetic/affordances, clicking on them anywhere
> dismisses them. Using libnotify means the desktop environment's uniform
> notifications are used. I use XFCE, their appearance and behaviour is
> configured via xfce4-notifyd-config, which allows changing graphical
> theme, position, timeout and opacity of them. (I found a tip on the arch
> linux wiki saying gnome users can edit the registry^Wgconf key
> /apps/notification-daemon/ to configure them on GNOME)
>
> Try the following from the shell:
>
> aptitude install libnotify-bin
> notify-send "Hello, World" "<b>I am a Fish.</b> On $(date)"
>
> Results shown in the attached screenshot.

On my system, there is no close box, and a click does not dismiss it, but 
mouse over makes it very transparent.  As you said, probably a theme thing.
It times out after a while.

> Linking emacs, at least x11/gtk emacs, against libnotify and supporting
> a (notify-send ...) or something usable from within emacs would probably
> be quite doable. Maybe the elisp api could be wrapped around the other
> platforms' native similar facilities on non-x11.
>

This is a good idea.

	Jan D.