Hi Nikos, sorry for the late reply, and thanks for the detailed explanations. I just rebooted my system, and realized that dunst is back there ;-)
> The autostart part of dunst is managed by dbus, specifically the > auto-activation > feature. Unfortunately dbus is not as powerful of a service manager as systemd > and it doesn't have a way to prioritise one service over another, or a way to > disable one while still keeping it installed. > > So what can be done now? Is there a way to claim that interface/service somehow? I am thinking of other cinnamon users (since I am one of the maintainers of Cinnamon in Debian), and how Cinnamon could stop dbus from starting another notification daemon, when the one from cinnamon is already running. Is there a way for this? Or is it anyway too late, because the notification service is started already before the cinnamon session is started? (during xsession somewhere)? > I don't see a way to solve this other than removing the dbus service file > entirely, but for this to work and not break a lot of other systems we have to > auto-enable dunst for all desktop users on install Mumumu, not a nice solution, indeed. > started. So it leaves the only option of having an auto-restart on failure > every > X seconds (pretty ugly approach IMO, and it's going to spam the error logs if > no > graphical session is started for a while). No, that is even worse. > Any other suggestions? Not really anything better than learning how to claim the dbus faster than dunst? > From your side you can remove the service file at > /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.knopwob.dunst.service and have the i3 users > enable dunst via systemd or enable it globally and disable it for yourself. Removing the file is a bit bad an idea, because the next upload will again bring it in. Is there a way to "shadow"/disable it, similar to shadowing of systemd units? Best Norbert -- PREINING Norbert https://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + IFMGA ProGuide + TU Wien + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Dev GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13
