Workaround would be to install xfce-extra/xfce4-notifyd
Forum post here: http://forum.sabayon.org/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=24923&p=139046#p139046 Bug is here: http://bugs.sabayon.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2618 On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Joost Ruis <joostr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >> >> >> >
