On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:07:58PM +0200, Alberts Muktupāvels wrote: > Openbox is window manager, why should it start something?
Openbox runs the XDG autostart programs because it is helpful. This way when I install, say, parcimonie or hplip-gui or notification-daemon, all those packages need to do is create an /etc/xdg/autostart file, and they are launched for my X session. > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Kevin McCarthy <ke...@8t8.us> wrote: > > It seems like the notifications would be useful for all desktop > > environments. Would it be unreasonable to remove the "OnlyShowIn" > > line from the autostart file, or would this cause problems in some > > desktops? > > GNOME does not use notification-daemon so starting it in all desktop > environments is not solution. Also I plan to stop using notification-daemon > for GNOME-Flashback, so autostart file will be removed. I see. I wasn't aware that notification-daemon was a Gnome project package. Perhaps it should have been named gnome-notification-daemon to make this clearer? Will the package be removed now that GNOME-Flashback isn't using it either? In any case, I will install another implementation, such as dunst. Please feel free to close this bug out. > If your desktop environment uses notification-daemon then it must install > autostart file for it. Just to correct this misunderstanding, my "desktop environment" isn't using notification-daemon. Debian packages that I have installed, e.g. profanity, depend on libnotify4, which in turn recommends notification-daemon. However, I mistakenly installed the actual "notification-daemon" package, thinking it was a generic solution. -Kevin
