After 2 days of googling. I just found that the notification system is somewhat hard coded in gnome-shell.
Here: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2011-February/msg10655.html As the mail above. I think they have taken the name org.freedesktop.Notifications. Thus this makes notify-osd cannot register the instance(already taken): $ /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd ** (notify-osd:6207): WARNING **: Another instance has already registered org.freedesktop.Notifications ** (notify-osd:6207): WARNING **: Could not register instance Also, the first mail I post which created an error about " Got error "Did not receive a reply. ". That was my mistake for running the notify-osd in root (since they are two different sessions and dbus relies on sessions) So my question is: How do I override these settings? Say can I tell gnome-shell to not taking that instance or any other workaround to make notify-osd to work? I just really needed some help, every link in google has turned purple. I am starting to feel helpless:( PS: There is a outdated fix about editing /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service but that won't work in gnome 3.4 (that file doesn't even exists) And there is another outdate fix about editing /usr/share/gnome-session/<fallback>.session's DefaltProvider field and that won't work either. ( there is no such thing, adding it won't work, tried.) On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:30 AM, 斟酌鵬兄 <[email protected]> wrote: > I am using wheezy and gnome 3. > I just did a little research on google that I think this is somewhat > related to dbus? > (althought I don't know what it does. but the output there has a line > contains dbus_create_service_instance? ) > > This is the related bug report: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640120 > > However at the end it said it is fixed in version 0.9.32. > But I have the version: > notify-osd: > Installed: 0.9.34-2 > Candidate: 0.9.34-2 > > Do I need to modify the file in here? > /etc/xdg/autostart/notify-osd.desktop > > [Desktop Entry] > Name=Notify OSD > Comment=Display notifications > Exec=/usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd > Terminal=false > Type=Application > OnlyShowIn=LXDE;OPENBOX;GNOME;XFCE; > X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false > > Sorry for didn't provide much information. I was just frustrated to find > the solution:( > > > > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Sharon Kimble <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 01:01:17 +0800 >> 斟酌鵬兄 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I got these errors when trying to start the daemon: >> > >> > >> > ** (notify-osd:4791): WARNING **: dbus_create_service_instance(): Got >> > error "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote >> > application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy >> > blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network >> > connection was broken." >> > >> > >> > ** (notify-osd:4791): WARNING **: Could not register instance >> > >> > I don't know how to fix it. >> > I've removed package notification-daemon but it seems gnome is still >> > using it when I run: >> > notify-send test. >> > >> > >> > What do I do now? >> >> You give us *full* information, like what version of debian? What >> command did you run to try to start the daemon? How did you remove >> 'notification-daemon'? Which version of Gnome? >> >> Sharon. >> -- >> A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk >> efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ >> efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ >> Debian testing, Fluxbox 1.3.5, LibreOffice 4.1.0.4 >> Registered Linux user 334501 >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Panguin > -- Regards, Panguin
