What is dms-githubnotifier?

This is a plugin for DankMaterialShell, a customizable desktop environment with a taskbar-style bar called the DankBar. The plugin keeps a small badge in that bar showing how many open GitHub pull requests you've authored and how many issues are assigned to you, so you can glance at your desktop and know if there's something needing your attention. Behind the scenes, the plugin talks to GitHub through the gh command-line tool, GitHub's official terminal program. On a regular interval you configure, it asks gh to search for open pull requests you created and open issues assigned to you, then displays the combined count as a number on the bar. Clicking the badge opens a small popup with the breakdown and links that take you straight to the relevant filtered pages on GitHub in your browser. You can optionally narrow the results to a specific GitHub organization if you only care about one company or team's repos. This is for developers who use DankMaterialShell as their daily desktop interface and spend a lot of time on GitHub. If you maintain a few projects or belong to a team where people assign you bugs and review requests, instead of keeping a browser tab open or manually checking throughout the day, the count sits right in your taskbar. A project manager who lives in GitHub issues could also find it handy for the same reason, you see the number climb and know to take a look. The project relies entirely on gh rather than talking to GitHub's API directly, which means you need that tool installed and logged in for the plugin to work. It also needs Font Awesome installed so the GitHub logo renders correctly in the bar. Configuration is straightforward: you pick how often it refreshes, whether to count PRs, issues, or both, and optionally which organization to filter by. The README notes that if counts show as zero unexpectedly, the first thing to check is whether gh is properly authenticated.