Re: desktop notification gone
On Sat, 12 May 2012 13:53:08 +0200, Tom wrote:
> My desktop has long stopped notifying me of things. I ignored it for a
> while, expecting it to fix itself, but it doesn't.
>
> I wasn't/am not quite sure about the relationship between the
> notification-daemon and notify-osd packages. The latter seems to be
> another implementation of the same freedesktop spec. In any case, I
> tried with both, to no avail.
Yes, both applications share the same purpose though you only need one of
them installed to get the notifications.
But I think this has changed a bit since gnome-shell.
In GNOME2 and GNOME3 (the latter with the classic desktop or fallback
mode) "notification-daemon" is the default and also started on login but
gnome-shell has its own notification server system aside from these two.
"notify-osd" is an altaernative notification system in the line of
"notification-daemon", I mean, I don't know if it works inside a gnome-
shell session with no previous tweking.
> This is on sid. I mostly use Openbox, starting notification- and
> gnome-settings-daemon from .xinitrc. Oddly enough, all applications that
> ought to notify me (I only use three: my music player, Icedove, and
> Transmission) do so exactly one time after their start-up.
Check whether the "notification-daemon" is started after you login.
> When running Gnome everything's fine. I suppose that might mean I don't
> start some daemon I should (which then was probably introduced with
> Gnome 3), but notify-send just works.
What GNOME? Fallback or shell? :-)
> I hope it's no case of PEBKAC, but couldn't find any recent related
> bugs, and have no idea of how to go about finding out what's wrong.
> Perhaps somebody here could point me in some relevant direction?
You can also try the usual thing: create a new user, login and check if
the notifications are working (configure first the startup daemon for
notifications as needed).
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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