Hello,

Can you try the git-master version of Awesome? I think this problem
has been solved a while back.

Regards,
Emmanuel

On 9 May 2015 at 13:41, Martin Ueding <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have used KDE 4 and Awesome WM 3.4 for a while on Kubuntu now. Since
> the upgrade to Plasma 5, the next version of KDE, I have a small problem
> with notifications.
>
> Since I use both KDE and Awesome WM, I am not sure where to ask. I just
> think that *you* know more about using both of them then the KDE people do.
>
> When the network manager changes the active connection, it notifies me
> saying something like “connection DHCP was activated”. Before the
> upgrade, this notification went away after a couple seconds. Now it
> stays there indefinitely and flickers the whole time. If I click on it
> to remove it, it will just appear right again.
>
> Another issue, which might be related is the following: The background
> image of Plasma (`wm_class` is `plasmashell`) is over the wibox of
> Awesome WM. I added a small rule snippet which minimizes this. That has
> worked with KDE 4, though.
>
> I think that Awesome WM and Plasma 5 argue about their respective
> z-index on the screen. This would explain the flickering of the
> notifications. I just do not get why I cannot remove the notifications
> by clicking on them and why they do not disappear on their own.
>
> My current workaround is to restart Awesome WM once there is a
> notification stuck, but that is really a solution for the long term.
>
> I just tested it with the same `.config/awesome` (although mine is for
> 3.4 and not 3.5) on the Fedora 22 Beta. The same flickering and z-index
> problem appears there as well, so this is not distribution specific.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin
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