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Disable Rofication and add another notification system
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This page was copied from the [Regolith 1.x website](https://regolith-linux.org) and has not been updated for Regolith 2. It may contain out of date information.
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Regolith ships with a notification system called [Rofication](https://github.com/DaveDavenport/Rofication). It is designed to work in the background and not use pop-ups as a way of alerting the user to a new notification. Rather, a small bar item displays the current number of unread notifications and a dialog can activated to interact with the content of the current notifications. This page describes a way to install an alternative notification system which works in a more traditional way.

We will use [dunst](https://dunst-project.org/) as an example but similar steps can be used with pretty much any other notification component.

1. Replace `rofication` with `dunst`:

```bash
sudo apt install dunst
sudo apt purge regolith-rofication
```
```bash
sudo apt install dunst libnotify-bin
```

This should remove Rofication automatically as the package-manager sees the conflict and resolves it. If this is not removed automatically, you can do it manually. Also, if you want to remove the remaining configuration, the following works as well:

```bash
sudo apt purge regolith-rofication # remove any remaining config as well
```

2. Log out and back in.
3. Test your notifications with `notify-send test123`. You should see a pop-up notification from `dunst`.