ANN: Notification-daemon-xfce 0.3.5 released

[Nick Schermer]

2006/9/10, Joe Klemmer <klemmerj at webtrek.com>:
> On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 22:17 +0200, Nick Schermer wrote:
>
> > >         Is there a way to resize the note?  There don't seem to be any window
> > > decorations on the note.
> >
> > A notification with window decorations?? You must be kidd'n right?
> > Anyway the notification has a 'default' size and will resize if the
> > content doesn't fit.
>
>         Kidding?  No.  Confused as all get out?  Definitely.  It's not the
> notification plugin I meant to comment on but the notes plugin.
>
>         However, regarding the notification plugin, I have a few questions.
> First off, your notification thingy doesn't play well with the gnome
> one.  This is understandable.  But when I tried to remove the gnome rpm
> it started wanting to remove all kinds of crap, including Evolution
> (which is what I use).  So I figured I'd give the gnome one a shot but
> it keeps erroring off with a stupid "assertion failed" message.
>
> $ notify-send 'test 1'
>
> ** ERROR **: file notifynotification.c: line 331 (notify_notification_new): assertion failed: (message != NULL)
> aborting...
> Aborted

This is a problem in libnotify, not the daemon. Which libnotify
version are you using (notify-send --version)? Make sure you're
running the latest (0.4.2).

>
>         Any idea what might be happening or, better yet, any way to replace the
> gnome one with yours?

Well this depends on you package system. The 2 daemons both register
the same dbus service, so you need a package that 'replaces'
notification-daemon and also 'provides' the notification-daemon.

Nick

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