Notifications do not work in Xfce-4.10
killermoehre
killermoehre at gmx.net
Fri May 18 11:51:51 CEST 2012
Am 18.05.2012 11:48, schrieb v_2e at ukr.net:
> On Fri, 18 May 2012 11:39:39 +0200
> killermoehre<killermoehre at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Am 18.05.2012 11:35, schrieb v_2e at ukr.net:
>>> Hello!
>>> I'm confused about notifications in Xfce. After some of recent
>>> upgrades, they just stopped displaying.
>>> I use Gentoo GNU/Linux with Xfce-4.10 and xfce4-notifyd-0.2.2
>>> installed, but I cannot understand how to start this daemon working.
>>>
>>> Any ideas how to handle this? Or maybe some of you know what has
>>> changed in Xfce since 4.8, for example (in this context)?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> Vladimir
>>>
>>> -----
>>> <v_2e at ukr.net>
>> Hi Vladimir,
>>
>> this daemon starts on its own as soon as some program sends a
>> dbus-call to the notification daemon dbus socket (is this a socket?
>> Or something like this?)
>> Did you rebuilt xfce4-notifyd against the new 4.10 libs?
>>
> Yes, in fact, I didn't have xfce4-notifyd installed at first (it
> means that I have never installed this daemon before), and then read
> somewhere in the Internet that there is such tool for Xfce and
> installed it as well.
> It also seems strange to me that I have never used this daemon
> before, but I clearly saw the notifications on my desktop. Maybe there
> are several different ways (or applications, or daemons) to display
> them?
>
> Regards,
> Vladimir
>
> -----
> <v_2e at ukr.net>
Yes, there are many such daemons out there implementing all the same
dbus interface to provide a uniform behavior to some point. Probably you
have notification-daemon from gnome installed.
Regards
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