docs: the notification settings page and config.json

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/notifications/README.md b/notifications/README.md
index 36df6da..f80c79e 100644
--- a/notifications/README.md
+++ b/notifications/README.md
@@ -6,9 +6,14 @@ one balloon per live notification, bottom-right of `DP-1`.
 
 ## Suppression lives here
 
-The daemon does not know about DND or snooze. This component withholds
-balloons: `status.dnd` suppresses low and normal, `notifyd/snooze` suppresses
-everything. The drawer's reserved space lists every live notification anyway.
+The daemon does not know about DND, snooze or mute. This component withholds
+balloons: `status.dnd` suppresses low and normal (and critical too when
+`dndPassCritical` is off), a muted app is always withheld, and
+`notifyd/snooze` suppresses everything. The drawer's reserved space lists
+every live notification anyway.
+
+Placement, mute and the DND rule come from `~/.config/notifyd/config.json`,
+edited from the settings window (Desktop → Notifications).
 
 ## The files are the interface
 
@@ -16,6 +21,7 @@ everything. The drawer's reserved space lists every live notification anyway.
     $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/notifyd/history.json    the ring of 20
     $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/notifyd/drawer          "1" while the drawer holds the space
     $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/notifyd/snooze          an epoch second while snoozing
+    ~/.config/notifyd/config.json            settings, shared with the daemon
 
 `notifyctl` and `notify-snooze.sh` are in `~/bin`; without them the balloons
 draw but close and actions do nothing.