Re: broken kde notifications
Thanks. Purging notification-daemon solved the problem.
Should the kde-full or kde-desktop metapackage have a conflicts on stuff
like these ? An end user will not be aware how the notifications went
broken.
Ritesh
Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Sunday, 2010-06-06, Modestas Vainius wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On sekmadienis 06 Birželis 2010 12:50:40 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
>> > Hello Modestas,
>> >
>> > On Sunday 06 Jun 2010 14:24:27 Modestas Vainius wrote:
>> > > > Here's the link to the screenshot.
>> > > > http://www.researchut.com/tmp/knotify.jpeg
>> > >
>> > > Terminate GNOME processes?
>> >
>> > I'm not sure what you mean here. The screenshot shows kopete notifying
>> > through some GNOME notification. My installation tends to be gnome
>> > minimal. Acutally, I don't have any gnome apps installed. Whatever is
>> > there is mostly libs pulled as dependencies.
>> >
>> > Can you be specific on what GNOME processes ? My check did not yield
>> > even a single one. I do have a bunch of gtk processes (wicd,
>> > virt-manager)
>>
>> I don't know, I'm not a GNOME expect nor I want to be. But afaik
>> notifications are desktop-independent and relayed through DBus. So there
>> is a GNOME application listening on the specific DBus signal (I guess
>> `qdbus
>> org.freedesktop.Notifications /org/freedesktop/Notifications` stuff) and
>> preventing KDE plasma desktop from taking the service over.
>
> Probably notification-daemon or notify-osd.
> Once a process claims specified D-Bus name for the notification system, it
> owns it. All other programs capable of being a notification provider just
> don't get any of the calls.
>
> So if this happens with a clean session, something might have either
> invoked the other notification provider before plasma-desktop could claim
> it or something created a notification and D-Bus decided to activate one
> (not sure if any of the notification providers install a .service file for
> that though)
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
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