Re: desktop notification gone

2012-05-13 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 May 2012 21:41:44 +0200, Tom wrote: On 05/12/2012 06:02 PM, Camaleón wrote: Check whether the notification-daemon is started after you login. It is, I re-checked this afternoon for Michael already (and besides, notify-send does okay, which I guess it wouldn't without the

Re: desktop notification gone

2012-05-13 Thread Tom
Hey Adrian, To anybody else reading this and not using Gnome or KDE, how does notification work for you? I use xfce4-notifyd from XFCE .. It also has a nice configuration utility: xfce4-notifyd-config. Works great so far (for at least 2 months); couldn't be happier. Works like a charm

Re: desktop notification gone

2012-05-13 Thread Tom
Hey Camaleón, First off, to my delight it is worked around by using XFCE's daemon, cf. Adrian's message. After quite a detour I learned it's likely/probably about the message queue not being flushed .. For notify-OSD and notification-daemon however the only advice I found was to kill it.

Re: desktop notification gone

2012-05-13 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 13 May 2012 12:51:04 +0200, Tom wrote: Hey Camaleón, First off, to my delight it is worked around by using XFCE's daemon, cf. Adrian's message. Yup, I already read that message :-) After quite a detour I learned it's likely/probably about the message queue not being flushed ..

Re: desktop notification gone

2012-05-13 Thread Indulekha
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:51:01PM +0200, Tom wrote: Hey Adrian, To anybody else reading this and not using Gnome or KDE, how does notification work for you? I use xfce4-notifyd from XFCE .. It also has a nice configuration utility: xfce4-notifyd-config. Works great so far (for at least

desktop notification gone

2012-05-12 Thread Tom
Hey all, My desktop has long stopped notifying me of things. I ignored it for a while, expecting it to fix itself, but it doesn't. I wasn't/am not quite sure about the relationship between the notification-daemon and notify-osd packages. The latter seems to be another implementation of the same

Re: desktop notification gone

2012-05-12 Thread Michael Biebl
On 12.05.2012 13:53, Tom wrote: This is on sid. I mostly use Openbox, starting notification- and gnome-settings-daemon from .xinitrc. Oddly enough, all applications that ought to notify me (I only use three: my music player, Icedove, and Transmission) do so exactly one time after their

Re: desktop notification gone

2012-05-12 Thread Tom
On 05/12/2012 02:26 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: This is on sid. I mostly use Openbox .. When running Gnome everything's fine. To show desktop notification, you need a notification service running. gnome-shell and KDE have one built-in and there is a standalone daemon called notification-daemon

Re: desktop notification gone

2012-05-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 May 2012 13:53:08 +0200, Tom wrote: My desktop has long stopped notifying me of things. I ignored it for a while, expecting it to fix itself, but it doesn't. I wasn't/am not quite sure about the relationship between the notification-daemon and notify-osd packages. The latter

Re: desktop notification gone

2012-05-12 Thread Tom
On 05/12/2012 06:02 PM, Camaleón wrote: Check whether the notification-daemon is started after you login. It is, I re-checked this afternoon for Michael already (and besides, notify-send does okay, which I guess it wouldn't without the daemon). When running Gnome everything's fine. What

Re: desktop notification gone

2012-05-12 Thread Adrian Fita
On 12/05/12 22:41, Tom wrote: To anybody else reading this and not using Gnome or KDE, how does notification work for you? I use xfce4-notifyd from XFCE on Openbox as window manager. I start it from ~/.config/autostart/xfce4-notifyd.desktop (the package doesn't come with any .desktop file

Re: desktop notification gone

2012-05-12 Thread Adrian Fita
On 13/05/12 00:07, Adrian Fita wrote: I start it from ~/.config/autostart/xfce4-notifyd.desktop (the package doesn't come with any .desktop file anywhere). Sorry, I forgot to attach the xfce4-notifyd.desktop file that I use: [Desktop Entry] Name=XFCE Notification Daemon Comment=Display