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jakub

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Registered: 2013-09-14

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[SOLVED] OSD volume notifications stopped working (XFCE)

Hi,

my OSD notifications just sopped working. There is no volume bar or brightness bar displayed anymore when I change volume/brightness.

journalctl -b 0 gives:

lis 19 16:50:51 t61 org.freedesktop.Notifications[500]: ** (notify-osd:1662): WARNING **: Couldn't register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

notify-send testing does nothing as well.

Any ideas how to solve the problem?

Update: only volume notifications are broken.

Last edited by jakub (2014-12-11 23:10:59)

toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

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Re: [SOLVED] OSD volume notifications stopped working (XFCE)

Out of curiosity, why are you using notify-osd instead of the Xfce-defaiult notifyd?

Have you tried with xfce4-notifyd to see if they work?
If it is installed, then to test it, try renaming the /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service file (included with notify-osd) and killing the notify-osd process - xfce4-notifyd should then take over when you execute "notify-send testing" again.

If both exist, you should probably remove notify-osd.

jakub

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Re: [SOLVED] OSD volume notifications stopped working (XFCE)

I have no idea what was the corelation between these two. I uninstalled notify-osd as according to wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … ifications) it's for Unity. Anyway - it was working yesterday ;p

I also uninstalled xfce4-volumed and installed volumeicon.
Currently situation is better because notifications are shown (xfce4-notifyd-config shows test notification). But there is no notification for volume change as something is messed up.
Simply what is shown in xfce4-mixer is not consistent with real setting. For example I can set volume to 50% by pressing few times dedicated button on my laptop and xfce4-mixer will still show 100% volume despite alsamixer shows 50%! (small applet icon with speaker seems to represents volume correctly)

When I turn volume up/down in xfce4-mixer then the change is reflected in alsamixer opened in console (so this way works). I was just about to create separate thread for this issue but now I'm confused and don't know if these two problems are somehow related.

/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.xfce4-notifyd.Notifications.service

[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
Exec=/usr/lib64/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd

plese see this screenshot: http://imgur.com/zuKdNrH

Update: I looked into volumeicon source - it's configured to compile with notification support (https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … volumeicon)

Last edited by jakub (2014-11-20 01:03:47)

jakub

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Re: [SOLVED] OSD volume notifications stopped working (XFCE)

I tried reinstalling xfce4-mixer but it didn't help. It seems like only volume notification is not working.

toz

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Re: [SOLVED] OSD volume notifications stopped working (XFCE)

I also uninstalled xfce4-volumed and installed volumeicon.

I'm not sure about volumeicon, but xfce4-volumed should provide the notifications - at least it does for me.

I tried reinstalling xfce4-mixer but it didn't help. It seems like only volume notification is not working.

Currently situation is better because notifications are shown (xfce4-notifyd-config shows test notification). But there is no notification for volume change as something is messed up.
Simply what is shown in xfce4-mixer is not consistent with real setting. For example I can set volume to 50% by pressing few times dedicated button on my laptop and xfce4-mixer will still show 100% volume despite alsamixer shows 50%! (small applet icon with speaker seems to represents volume correctly)

Sounds like this might be an issue with your sound setup. AFAIK, xfce4-volumed and xfce4-mixer will control/manage your default sound card. Are you using pulseaudio? If so, there is information on configuring xfce4-mixer for pulseaudio (setting the active sound card) in the Xfce wiki article.

jakub

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Re: [SOLVED] OSD volume notifications stopped working (XFCE)

Just found bug report from 2013: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9984

jakub

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Re: [SOLVED] OSD volume notifications stopped working (XFCE)

@Toz:
I'm not using pulseaudio

jakub

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Re: [SOLVED] OSD volume notifications stopped working (XFCE)

I seems like volume notifications sometimes work sometimes not. At the same time other notifications (like screen brightness) work just fine.
And what concerns "Bug 9984 - amixer does not affect Xfce4-mixer" - no progress on bug since 2013

jakub

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Re: [SOLVED] OSD volume notifications stopped working (XFCE)

After installing pavucontrol issue is gone! Mixer is presenting real volume and notifications are visible. Marking as solved (working config is alsa+pulseaudio+pavucontrol).