Function

Notifyinit

since: 0.7

Declaration [src]

gboolean
notify_init (
  const char* app_name
)

Description [src]

Initialized libnotify. This must be called before any other functions.

Starting from 0.8, if the provided app_name is NULL, libnotify will try to figure it out from the running application. Before it was not allowed, and was causing libnotify not to be initialized.

Available since: 0.7

Parameters

app_name

Type: const char*

The name of the application initializing libnotify.

The argument can be NULL.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: gboolean

TRUE if successful, or FALSE on error.