https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649588 Upstream gnome bug about this.
ran from lxde desktop: joost@xbox-360 ~ $ /usr/libexec/notification-daemon ** (notification-daemon:12092): DEBUG: Adding id 1 Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_visual_get_red_pixel_details: assertion `GDK_IS_VISUAL (visual)' failed On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Mitch Harder <mitch.har...@sabayonlinux.org> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Joost Ruis <joostr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've been successfully running Gnome3 for some time now and today went >> into lxde. >> All seems fine until I noticed that guake (the dropdown terminal) >> would not work. >> >> It works fine on the same system under Gnome3. >> >> joost@xbox-360 ~ $ guake >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "/usr/lib64/guake/guake.py", line 1353, in <module> >> if not main(): >> File "/usr/lib64/guake/guake.py", line 1296, in main >> instance = Guake() >> File "/usr/lib64/guake/guake.py", line 649, in __init__ >> notification.show() >> glib.GError: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: >> The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any >> .service files >> >> This made me think that there might be a general problem with the >> notification area on the desktop. >> >> joost@xbox-360 ~ $ notify-send "hello" >> joost@xbox-360 ~ $ >> >> And NOTHING happens... >> >> joost@xbox-360 ~ $ equo search notification-daemon >>>> @@ Searching... >>>> @@ Package: virtual/notification-daemon-0 branch: 5, >>>> [sabayonlinux.org] >>>> Available: version: 0 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 3 >>>> Installed: version: 0 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 3 >>>> Slot: 0 >>>> Description: Virtual for notification daemon >>>> dbus service >>>> License: >>>> @@ Package: x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.7.1 branch: 5, >>>> [sabayonlinux.org] >>>> Available: version: 0.7.1 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 0 >>>> Installed: version: 0.7.1 ~ tag: NoTag ~ revision: 0 >>>> Slot: 0 >>>> Homepage: http://git.gnome.org/browse/notification-daemon/ >>>> Description: Notification daemon >>>> License: GPL-2 >>>> Keywords: notification-daemon >>>> Found: 2 entries >> >> I assume that there has been a problem earlier because notify-osd (the >> other notify widget) has been removed. >> So the question would be, does the current notification-daemon only >> work with Gnome3? >> >> Do other programs suffer from this too? >> >> > > I haven't seen this anywhere else yet, but confirm the problem with > guake on my x86 netbook installation. > > >
