[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 8194] [PATCH] make multimedia keys working (audio volume/mail/www)

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8194

Roland Latour <rolandl at cavenet.com> changed:

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--- Comment #23 from Roland Latour <rolandl at cavenet.com> ---
1)xfce4-volumed has no manpage, doesn't even respond to the --help option.
2)is it for pulseaudio, or ALSA ? Most releases come with pulseaudio, but
many people routinely remove it. (it needs to DIAF)
3)IMHO shellscripts would be a more flexible approach anyway. See for
example http://user.cavenet.com/rolandl/PulseAudioScripts.tgz
4)Ref the above and ALSA, I'm working on scripts to implement that.
Problems:  I am using this in a shell script:
  vol=50
  notify-send -i info -t 3000 "Volume:  $vol %"

It works fine, up to a point, then fails with:
Error showing notification:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.Notifications.MaxNotificationsExceeded:
Exceeded maximum number of notifications
Zenity --info truncates the string at the first space, and
Zenity --notification gets the same 'Exceeded max' error.

The only way I've found to stop this is to put 'Notifications'
in my XFCE panel and click on the icon next to NetworkMgr
and click on the button "Clear all notifications".
There's got to be a way to do that from the command line. (I've looked).

Notifications need a rethink. Why are they so persistent? And why can't
I have commandline control? Empower the users.

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