FIXED (Hopefully)
This repo contains fixes based on Faheem Pervez's review of the extension in the Chrome Store.
I have included their suggested fixes to the code and their review in the README.
Perhaps oneday I will make a MakeFile and PackageBuild and upload this to the AUR.
=== This is a fork of the clone of the code from the Chrome Store, I am not the original author.
This is an extension for Chrome in Linux. It won't do anything for Windows users.
This catches Chrome Webkit notifications from webpages and displays those notifications in native Libnotify (xfce4-notify, notify-osd, etc) popups instead.
This is rewrite of Linux Native Notification for Chrome, which is based on Chromify-OSD. Both of those solutions only work with selected libnotify servers. This aims to work with everything based on libnotify. A list of servers that should work is here
Also, the previous solutions are based on NPAPI, which is being phased out. This is a Native Messaging implementation, so you also need to install the "host" portion of this software, which is written in C. You can download that zip file here.
Extract it and run the install.sh. Hopefully this can be automated in the future.
Faheem Pervez said on Aug 28, 2015
I actually got this to work on Arch Linux & Chromium 44, but sadly it cannot intercept Chrome notifications created by extensions. To be fair, the author does say "this catches Chrome Webkit notifications from webpages" and my short-sightedness is my own.
If someone does have a need for web notifications then here's how I got this working:
* Make sure libcurl and json-c is installed (and their -dev packages if your distro likes to split them up)
In invoke_notify.c:
* add #include <stdint.h> under the string.h line
* remove the "json/" part from the relevant #include line
This is the part I have already done. Just clone the repo and follow these instructions:
* Build with: gcc -march=native -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -o invoke_notify `pkg-config --cflags --libs libnotify json-c libcurl` invoke_notify.c
* Open com.initiated.chrome_libnotify_notifications.json and change the extension ID already in there to gphchdpdmccpjmpiilaabhpdfogeiphf
* Get a root shell
If using chromium:
TARGET=/etc/chromium/native-messaging-hosts/
Chrome:
TARGET=/etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts
* mkdir -p $TARGET
* cd $TARGET
* copy com.initiated.chrome_libnotify_notifications.json and invoke_notify into target
* edit com.initiated.chrome_libnotify_notifications.json and replace HOST_PATH with $TARGET/invoke_notify (perform the expansion manually in your mind)
* make sure the $TARGET directory has 755 permission and is owned by root:root, the json file is 644 and owned by root:root and the invoke_notify binary 755 and root:root
- make it work with gmail :(
If you are interested, the code base is here:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BzOewlVTs_tpek54TDVNbFFxWlk&usp=sharing
Want a test?
Notifications API webkitnotifications API
This depends on libnotify, curl, and json-c
Run ./host/install.sh to install the host native function manifest file.