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 seems to be > another implementation of the same freedesktop spec. In any case, I > tried with both, to no avail.
Yes, both applications share the same purpose though you only need one of them installed to get the notifications. But I think this has changed a bit since gnome-shell. In GNOME2 and GNOME3 (the latter with the classic desktop or fallback mode) "notification-daemon" is the default and also started on login but gnome-shell has its own notification server system aside from these two. "notify-osd" is an altaernative notification system in the line of "notification-daemon", I mean, I don't know if it works inside a gnome- shell session with no previous tweking. > 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 start-up. Check whether the "notification-daemon" is started after you login. > When running Gnome everything's fine. I suppose that might mean I don't > start some daemon I should (which then was probably introduced with > Gnome 3), but notify-send just works. What GNOME? Fallback or shell? :-) > I hope it's no case of PEBKAC, but couldn't find any recent related > bugs, and have no idea of how to go about finding out what's wrong. > Perhaps somebody here could point me in some relevant direction? You can also try the usual thing: create a new user, login and check if the notifications are working (configure first the startup daemon for notifications as needed). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jom1j5$s0$1...@dough.gmane.org
