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willbprog127

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Registered: 2011-11-09

Posts: 59

[SOLVED] Expiration time ignored in libnotify

Greetings everyone.

I'm using LXDE on Arch and wanted to do some custom notifications.  I first installed notification-daemon, visited the Arch Wiki on the subject then tried this in a bash script:

#! /bin/bash

notify-send "New Mail" "From: $1\nSubject: $2" -t 60000

That popped up the notification just fine, but the expire-time parameter (-t 60000) was completely ignored as the notification disappeared after 5 seconds.  Thinking it was just a notify-send problem, I decided to compile the example program (with the addition of notify_notification_set_timeout) in C:

#include <libnotify/notify.h>

void main () {
	notify_init ("Hello world!");
	NotifyNotification * Hello = notify_notification_new ("Hello world", "This is an example notification.", "dialog-information");
	notify_notification_set_timeout(Hello, NOTIFY_EXPIRES_NEVER);
	notify_notification_show (Hello, NULL);
	notify_uninit ();
}

This worked, however the notification bubble is still disappearing after five seconds.  Just for good measure, I even substituted NOTIFY_EXPIRES_NEVER with 60000 and this also was ignored.

I can't seem to find anything on the forums by searching (or through my favorite search engine) about timeout problems.  Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks!

Last edited by willbprog127 (2011-12-01 23:32:42)

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 4,111

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Re: [SOLVED] Expiration time ignored in libnotify

This is dependent on the sink that handles notifications, not libnotify itself.

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willbprog127

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Registered: 2011-11-09

Posts: 59

Re: [SOLVED] Expiration time ignored in libnotify

This is dependent on the sink that handles notifications, not libnotify itself.

Thanks for that.  What can I do, then, to change this behavior?  How can I identify what the sink is?

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,606

Re: [SOLVED] Expiration time ignored in libnotify

In your case, notification-daemon is the sink. Though I thought notification-daemon supported timeout, that only notify-osd doesn't. Try with xfce4-notifyd.

willbprog127

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Registered: 2011-11-09

Posts: 59

Re: [SOLVED] Expiration time ignored in libnotify

Excellent!  Using xfce4-notifyd, my bash script's timeout parameter works properly!  Thank you very very much!