Hi Francesco, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > I have notification-daemon installed on my system: > > > > That's strange. > > > > Can you send me the output of this command on the system where this > > happened? > > > > $ fgrep org.freedesktop.Notifications /usr/share/dbus-1/services/*.service > > $ fgrep org.freedesktop.Notifications /usr/share/dbus-1/services/*.service > $ fgrep -i org.freedesktop.Notifications > /usr/share/dbus-1/services/*.service > $ fgrep -i Notification /usr/share/dbus-1/services/*.service > $ > > No output at all.
Ok, that's _not_ what I expected and hence leads us closer. > Which file did you expect me to find? Something like this: $ fgrep org.freedesktop.Notifications /usr/share/dbus-1/services/*.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.deepin.dde.freedesktop.Notification.service:Nameorg.freedesktop.Notifications /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.mate.Notifications.service:Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.plasma.Notifications.service:Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.plasma.Notifications.service:Exec=/usr/bin/plasma_waitforname org.freedesktop.Notifications /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.knopwob.dunst.service:Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.xfce4-notifyd.Notifications.service:Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications > Package notification-daemon does not seem to ship any *.service file: > > $ dpkg -L notification-daemon | grep -i service But other notification daemons seem to do. So despite it's name "notification-daemon" looking like being the most generic one of all of them, it looks to me as if it does not to provide that interface. Very unexpected. > P.S.: I dropped the moreinfo tag, but, of course, feel free to re-set > it, in case you need any other answer from me! Perfectly fine. Need to think about this and investigate further. So https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=Name%3Dorg.freedesktop.Notifications leads to this package list: ukui-notification-daemon deepin-notifications plasma-workspace mako-notifier xfce4-notifyd mate-notification-daemon notify-osd So a short-term workaround seems to depend on only an alternative list of these notification daemons. It's though clearly not all notification-daemons in Debian. At least lxqt-notificationd and some window manager/desktop environments seem to provide "notification-daemon", but not have such a file, too. But since at least ukui-notification-daemon, deepin-notifications and mate-notification-daemon are AFAIK based on GNOME's notification-daemon, I tried to find something in it's changelog, but I only found this in the upstream changelog from 2011 (!): NEW in 0.7.1: ============== - Don't use DBus activation And this upstream commit: commit 1ad20d22098bc7718614a8a87744a2c22d5438d0 Author: Matthias Clasen <mcla...@redhat.com> Date: Tue Feb 15 09:52:11 2011 -0500 Don't use dbus activation Dbus activation causes a race with gnome-shell at session startup. Instead, install a regular desktop file, so we can make notification-daemon a required component of the fallback session. Finally, install notification-daemon in bindir to avoid fiddling with libexecdir when generating the desktop file. data/Makefile.am | 8 +++++--- data/notification-daemon.desktop.in | 7 +++++++ data/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.in | 3 --- src/Makefile.am | 2 +- 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) Not sure though if it's really related, because the commit message seems to sound more like they just disabled starting notification-daemon via D-Bus and starred it always by default. But maybe I'm also looking at the wrong place. At least "org.freedesktop.Notifications" shows up all over notification-daemon's source code: https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=package%3Anotification-daemon+org.freedesktop.Notifications+package%3A%5CQnotification-daemon%5CE&literal=1 Then again, not having such a service file seems to fit with your observations. Since I'm neither well-versed in GNOME stuff nor in D-Bus stuff, I'm bit out of (better) ideas at the moment. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
