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matchil

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-11-06

Posts: 56

libnotify popup position

Hi,
I've been using notification plugins for Pidgin and claws-mail which both use libnotify. The thing is that popups are shown in right-bottom corner, even thou I have my panel (xfce4-panel) at top. The question is "Is it possible to change the popup position?" Those plugins do not enable such a setting. I'm using Openbox with xfce4-panel.

Any idea?

Peace,
matchil

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-08-04

Posts: 618

Re: libnotify popup position

Sure.  Which notification daemon are you using?  I'm assuming it's either notification-daemon or notification-daemon-xfce since those are the two available in the arch repos.

If it's notification-daemon, this is controlled by gconf and you'll need to use gconf-editor to change it.  The key is /apps/notification-daemon/popup_location.

If it's the xfce one, it's controlled by a setting in the xfce-mcs.  Icon looks kinda like radio with waves coming out of it, or something.

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fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: libnotify popup position

Try running "xfce-settings-show" and it should let you configure the notification-daemon (if you're using the xfce variant, that is).  The gnome notification-daemon can be configured using gconf-editor, I think.

matchil

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-11-06

Posts: 56

Re: libnotify popup position

Cheers!
You made my day!

graysky

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-12-01

Posts: 7,009

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Re: libnotify popup position

The solution from 2008 has been renamed under the modern version of the software and is xfce4-notifyd-config.

Rationale for the necrobump: this is the #2 hit to the google search 'configure libnotify', a modern solution should be reflected for users finding it.  Note that at the time I post this, xfce4-notifyd is version 0.2.2.

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