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Storm

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Telegram losing native notifications - I'm confused

Not sure where to post this.

A few days ago I upgraded my system and Telegram suddenly lost the option to use native desktop notifications. I made a ticket on github that was simply closed without a comment as a duplicate of a ticket describing the same issue, but from three years ago, and supposedly still unfixed. I have a hard time seeing how can it be the same issue when to me it only happened now.

Looking through that ticket I saw lot of people complaining about this over the years, and someone mentioning this to be a packaging issue in the Arch version, but this is beyond me so I would rather like to ask the opinion of the more knowledgeable folks here. What do you think?

Ticket:
https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/3831

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RoundCube

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Re: Telegram losing native notifications - I'm confused

Seems to work for me on KDE … which suggests that you need some package. But which … …

Storm

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Re: Telegram losing native notifications - I'm confused

Seems to work for me on KDE … which suggests that you need some package. But which … …

Sorry for the late reply, I missed that I have a new reply here.

I somewhat recently rolled my system back to February 1 because of an issue, and then it worked again... for a while, then stopped working.

Now just upgraded my system back to up to date again, and still not working.

Last edited by Storm (2020-02-28 18:19:44)

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progandy

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Re: Telegram losing native notifications - I'm confused

So notify-send works? Does telegram work if you only start it after at least one notifications has been shown with notify-send?

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Storm

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Re: Telegram losing native notifications - I'm confused

So notify-send works?

Yes, and there are lots of things on my system using notifications that all work.

Using KDE/Plasma 5, BTW.

Does telegram work if you only start it after at least one notifications has been shown with notify-send?

No. The option is simply not there in the settings.

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Storm

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Re: Telegram losing native notifications - I'm confused

So notify-send works?

Yes, and there are lots of things on my system using notifications that all work.

Using KDE/Plasma 5, BTW.

Does telegram work if you only start it after at least one notifications has been shown with notify-send?

No. The option is simply not there in the settings.

OK wait, now it works.

And I've just restarted my system to confirm: When Telegram runs on logging into KDE it does not have the option, if I then kill it, create a notification and start it again, the option is there.

There is also some discussion going on on my closed ticket on Github: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/7130

Last edited by Storm (2020-03-02 10:30:30)

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Storm

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Re: Telegram losing native notifications - I'm confused

Update: Apparently it's a racing condition when KDE starts: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/5590

The weird thing though is that report is over a year old by I only started experiencing this a month ago.

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