Re: desktop notification gone
On 05/12/2012 06:02 PM, Camaleón wrote:
Check whether the "notification-daemon" is started after you login.
It is, I re-checked this afternoon for Michael already (and besides,
notify-send does okay, which I guess it wouldn't without the daemon).
When running Gnome everything's fine.
What GNOME? Fallback or shell? :-)
That'd be shell. I'm not sure what kind of smiley it really deserves
though. :)
You can also try the usual thing: create a new user, login and check
if the notifications are working
Nothing's different for the new user: everything notifies properly in
Gnome, but only once in Openbox.
Now, eh, I generally roll eyes when somebody starts answering to their
own questions, but I couldn't help it. After quite a detour I learned
it's likely/probably about the message queue not being flushed, but I
didn't find a solution for that. Statnot [1] was referred to in the
Arch forums because it has a QUEUE_NOTIFICATIONS config option. For
notify-OSD and notification-daemon however the only advice I found was
to kill it.
The notification specification [2] mentions expire_timeout. If that is
set to -1, the decision is left to the notification server. Since my
music player does just that, I suppose notification-daemon is to blame.
Sadly it isn't very configurable (not at all, as far as I'm aware).
But then surely I shouldn't be the only one having this. To anybody
else reading this and not using Gnome or KDE, how does notification
work for you?
Thanks,
Tom
[1] https://github.com/halhen/statnot
[2] http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/
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