Documentation on not displaying notifications

[MithicSpirit]

The sample dunstrc states that, to prevent a notification from being displayed, format should be set to "". However, doing so has no effect and creates the output WARNING: Cannot set empty value for setting format. I suspect that this is old behavior that has not been updated in the sample configuration yet.

Installation info

• Version: v1.6.1-139-ge973cf8
• Install type: AUR package dunst-git
• Distro and version: Arch (rolling)

[fwsmit]

Thank you for noticing this. This behaviour has indeed been changed by #803. The right way to skip a notification is skip_display = true. I've updated the dunstrc: e3279c4.

[MaienM]

It's great that we have a more intuitive way to skip displaying notifications, but the way the old option was phased out doesn't feel great. This seems to me to be a breaking change made on a minor version change. I would have expected the old way to continue working as well until a major version change, perhaps with a deprecation warning. I can also not find any mention of this change in the changelog (the description of 803 in the changelog certainly doesn't suggest that it will break any existing configs), so I had to dig through the issues to figure out this was an intentional change.

[fwsmit]

Actually this change wasn't intentional. It should be possible again in master. I'll release the next version soon