Install this script somewhere in your PATH,
and configure newsbeuter something like this:
notify-always yes
notify-format "%d new articles (%n unread articles, %f unread feeds)"
notify-program newsbeuter-notify.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash | |
exec notify-send \ | |
--hint="int:transient:1" \ | |
--icon="rss" \ | |
--app-name="newsbeuter" \ | |
"newsbeuter" "$@" |