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midixinga

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Registered: 2014-01-18

Posts: 193

[upstream bug] notify-send does not understand html anymore

I have a weird problem since a few days

My notify-send does not understand html anymore?!

In the past

notify-send "<b>bold</b>"

showed: "bold"

Now it shows: "<b>bold</b>"

I have no idea; maybe after KDE Application update 17.12.2 or some of these packages, which were updated:

lib32-mpg123
bzip2
systemd-sysvcompat
mariadb
mariadb-clients
libmariadbclient
lib32-systemd
systemd
libsystemd
lib32-libice
e2fsprogs
lib32-util-linux
sdl2_image
mpv
man-db
mate-icon-theme-faenza
mate-icon-theme
btrfs-progs
lz4
lib32-dbus
attica-qt4
youtube-dl
xf86-video-intel
vulkan-icd-loader
virtualbox-host-modules-arch
perl-dbd-mysql
linux
libreoffice-fresh-de
libreoffice-fresh
gwenhywfar
dbus
dropbox
yubikey-personalization
polkit-qt5
polkit-qt4
phonon-qt5
phonon-qt5-vlc
phonon-qt5-gstreamer
phonon-qt4
phonon-qt4-gstreamer
calibre
qpdf
pcsc-perl

thanks a lot

Last edited by midixinga (2018-02-13 09:03:02)

seth

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Re: [upstream bug] notify-send does not understand html anymore

that's not a matter of "notify-send" but the notification daemon, likely some plasmoid?

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midixinga

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Re: [upstream bug] notify-send does not understand html anymore

It seems not to be a problem with my KDE profile: New KDE User -> same problem

I started a fluxbox session and I tried notification-daemon: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … on-daemon/ and dunst: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … _64/dunst/; also with these daemons notify-send (or what ever) does not understand html anymore

does it work for you?

seth

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Re: [upstream bug] notify-send does not understand html anymore

Yup, libnotify 0.7.7-1 and dunst 1.3.0-2.
Notice that you need "allow_markup = yes" in your ~/.config/dunst/dunstrc

notify-send just passes the string you enter to the notification daemon via dbus. The interpretation of that string is entirely up to the daemon (dunst in my case)
Since you get "<b>bold</b>", the string perfectly makes it - it's just not interpreted as html.

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midixinga

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Re: [upstream bug] notify-send does not understand html anymore

Hi seth,

thanks a lot

I tried to install and start dunst, this was of course impossible, because "Name is acquired by </usr/bin/plasmashell-PID>", plasmashell is part of plasma-workspace.

I downgraded plasma-workspace from 5.12.0 to 5.11.5 and Bingo! the notification daemon understands HTML again.

seems to be a bug

Edit: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57487

Last edited by midixinga (2018-02-13 01:04:40)

seth

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Re: [upstream bug] notify-send does not understand html anymore

bugs.kde.org would probably be  more appropriate. This is obviously an upstream bug.

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midixinga

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Re: [upstream bug] notify-send does not understand html anymore

ok
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390362