Intray

Intray keeps a list of every desktop notification, so you can turn on Do Not Disturb and triage the notifications later. It targets elementary OS.

Intray groups entries by the app that sent them, with the most recent group at the top. Each entry shows how long ago it arrived, the summary and the body. Hover over the time to see the date. Select an entry to launch the app that sent it, or select Dismiss to remove the entry. Dismiss all in a group header removes every entry from that app and shows an Undo button for a few seconds. A screenshot entry opens the Screenshots folder instead, and an entry whose app sent a web link in an x-url hint opens the link. Clear all empties the inbox and shows an Undo button for a few seconds. The Do Not Disturb switch in the header bar turns the elementary OS setting on and off. Intray skips transient notifications, which apps mark as not worth keeping, and on-screen displays such as the volume level, and remembers the size of its window.

If an app sends no desktop entry, Intray finds the app to launch and the icon in an installed app whose desktop id or name exactly matches the app name, ignoring case. When an app updates a notification, such as a download progress, Intray replaces the earlier entry with the new one.

The inbox is saved to ~/.local/share/intray/inbox.ini, so entries survive a restart. Notifications are only captured while the app is running.

Keep it running

Closing the window does not quit Intray, so it keeps capturing notifications. Launch Intray again, or select its dock icon, to show the window. To quit, open the menu at the end of the header bar and select Quit, or press Ctrl+Q.

To capture notifications from the moment you log in, run intray --background at login. It starts Intray without showing the window.

Dock count

Intray shows the number of inbox entries as a badge on its dock icon. To hide the badge, open the menu at the end of the header bar and clear Show Count in Dock. Intray remembers the choice.

Build and run

Install valac, meson, GTK 4 and Granite 7 development files, then run:

make run

To add Intray to your app launcher and dock, install it in ~/.local with its icon and desktop file:

make install

If Intray is already running, quit it and start it again to use the new version.