naughty notifications with long messages

Question

Is there a way to bypass the character limit of naughty's notification messages? I don't know what that limit is, but they seem to be getting truncated after a certain length. I'm using orglendar and it summarizes my google calendar events in one message/pane, which is very convenient.

Problem is if I have more than 4 or so events, they tend to get too long and get cut off. The resulting message ends up being somewhat unreadable due to incorrect parsing because of truncated </span> tags.

Alternatively, since notification messages probably weren't designed for long lists like this to begin with, is there an alternative widget that I could modify orglendar to use instead?

Answer 1

Looking at the orglendar code, it seems you could simply tweek the calendar_width variable at the top of the script to a larger value.

Alternatively, the naughty documentation tells that you can use a nil width to get automatic width. If this is what you want, you can simply change orglendar to reflect this. At the bottom of the orglendar.lua file (line 268), simply comment-out or remove the width parameter:

calendar = naughty.notify({ title = header,
                           text = cal_text,
                           timeout = 0, hover_timeout = 0.5,
                           -- width = calendar_width * char_width,
                           screen = mouse.screen,
                        })