How to disable notification popups?

[wwp]

Hello killermoehre,


On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:10:09 +0100 killermoehre <killermoehre at gmx.net> wrote:

> Am 20.01.2014 12:14, schrieb wwp:
> > Hello killermoehre,
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:02:18 +0100 killermoehre <killermoehre at gmx.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> Am Mo 20 Jan 2014 11:19:37 CET schrieb wwp:
> >>> Hello killermoehre,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:55:17 +0100 killermoehre <killermoehre at gmx.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Am 20.01.2014 09:38, schrieb wwp:
> >>>>> Hello there,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've uninstalled xfce4-notifyd and notifications at desktop corners
> >>>>> look different, but they still show up. I couldn't find a way to
> >>>>> disable them from the settings or I'm blind.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any hint?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> (I want to disable them 'cause I'm getting a notification popup for
> >>>>> every sound that is played, huuu :-/)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>
> >>>> So you have another notifyd installed, maybe gnome ones. Deinstall it,
> >>>> too, if you can. Some programs require a notifyd and, so on is always
> >>>> isntalled by the package manager.
> >>>
> >>> Do you mean that if only a gnome notification system is *installed*
> >>> even if it's not running, it could interfere?
> >>>
> >>> Yes, GNOME is installed and I used to use it before I switched to Xfce.
> >>> No 'notify(d)' process is running, and I don't know any gnome
> >>> notification program that could be running (no gnome-* program involved
> >>> in notifications or sound is running).
> >>
> >> The notifyd is triggered by dbus. As long one is available (i.e. 
> >> installed and anounced at dbus), it starts.
> > 
> > Right! Apparently the noisy notifications were due to xfce4-volumed,
> > which I disabled and I don't get them when pulse audio is playing a wav
> > anymore (as expected).
> > 
> > 
> >>>> Please define what you mean by "notification for every sound that is
> >>>> played".
> >>>
> >>> That's a very good point: every time skype plays a sound (pulseaudio),
> >>> every time I run `aplay`. Sound using mplayer or audacious is not doing
> >>> that. Apart from this I don't have any desktop sound thru Xfce, I don't
> >>> know if that's normal or not, but it's not the topic here.
> >>
> >> And what says the notification? Since this is your real problem (and 
> >> you don't have it in gnome), we should catch this on.
> > 
> > It says exactly what the notification says when you adjust volume level:
> > it indicates the volume level %. Does it help?
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> 
> Yes, it does. You have a clash among alsa and pulse audio. Either remove
> PA or install the xfce pulse packages provided by your distribution. The
> official xfce packages doesn't support PA.

Very interesting, I didn't know that. I installed xfce4-volumed-pulse
(with a bit modifications to build on a CentOS6 because volumed-pulse
expects a more recent pulseaudio API) and it seems to work very well.

Thanks to you and Stephan for your help and advising me to use this
-pulse version!


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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