Background daemon calls notify-send - no notifications

[Todd Chester]

On 08/19/2017 01:27 AM, Roger Price wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to use notify-send with the NUT (Network UPS Tools) 
> daemon upsmon which runs in the background as user "upsd", monitoring 
> UPS units.
> This is one of the use cases given in the Desktop Notifications 
> Specification.
> 
> However this doesn't work because
> 
>   1. The xfce4-notifyd "daemon" runs as the userid of the caller,
>   2. Daemon upsmon does not have access to the X11 server.
> 
> Sure, I can massage user "upsd" into being a regular user with X11 
> access, and that is my current workaround, but I am surprised by the 
> design.  I expected something more like cupsd in which a detached daemon 
> isolates the user from the printer details and manages the flow of print 
> files.
> 
> It seems that there is a confusion between `notify me´ and `notify them'.
> The current design might be suitable for `notify me´, but an industrial 
> use such as UPS monitoring requires a `notify them´ approach.
> 
> Roger

Hi Roger,

Sounds like this bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1471560

-T