Hi, On Mon, 1 Feb 2021, at 15:51, Mike Gabriel wrote: > On Mo 01 Feb 2021 09:41:34 CET, Andrej Shadura wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Feb 2021, at 09:37, Andrej Shadura wrote: > >> I’m trying to use mate-notification-daemon without mate-screensaver, and > >> it doesn’t work. If I keep mate-screensaver installed but not running, > >> it starts on its own from time to time — turns out it’s > >> mate-notification-daemon > >> which prods it. Apparently, mate-notification-daemon checks whether a > >> screensaver is running before showing a notification, and it hardcodes > >> the mate-screensaver’s D-Bus interface org.mate.ScreenSaver instead of > >> using some other cross-DE method. > > > > I’d also like to add that failing to talk to mate-screensaver, it > > ends up not showing a notification at all, making itself unusable > > for its primary purpose. > > > > The hard dependency on mate-screensaver is also not declared in the > > dependencies.
> we won't get this changed for bullseye, but long term... do you have a > patch to propose to upstream? I wish I had, but unfortunately I do not :( -- Cheers, Andrej
