I don't know want is happening along the conversation in this 'thread', I'm just posting this to inform everyone who's interested in customizing notify-osd.
----- Sukochev Roman (Leolik) as a PPA with notify-osd which add the function of reading settings from ~/.notify-osd, and by my recommendation, now it has the patch created by Ankur Nayak, so it provides the timeout option too. If you want it, just install the PPA: https://launchpad.net/~leolik/+archive/leolik And if you want a nice way of configuring this notify-osd, install this notifyosdconfig: https://launchpad.net/~amandeepgrewal/+archive/notifyosdconfig -- notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390508 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs