mako(1)

mako1

Notification daemon for wayland

Usage

mako [options ...]

Overview

mako is a graphical notification daemon for Wayland compositors which support the layer-shell protocol. Notifications received over D-Bus are displayed until dismissed with a click or via makoctl(1).

Options

-h, --help

Show help message and quit.

-c, --config

Custom path to the config file.

Additionally, global configuration options can be specified. Passing --key=value is equivalent to a key=value line in the configuration file. See mako(5) for a list of options.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

Authors

Maintained by Simon Ser <[email protected]>, who is assisted by other open-source contributors. For more information about mako development, see https://github.com/emersion/mako.

From mako 1.11.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.