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From: Washington

Registered: 2007-11-04

Posts: 572

XFCE notification daemon

I have notification-daemon-xfce and libnotify installed but when I unmount or mount a drive, there is no notification of this. In the past it would say something like "this drive is now safe to remove". The only setting I have found is to change the position. How to I customize what it shows, when it shows it?

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-08-04

Posts: 620

Re: XFCE notification daemon

The function of the notification daemon is *only* to display those little boxes, nothing more.  The fact that it's xfce's is immaterial; basically there is a libnotify spec that the daemon can follow as closely as it wishes, implementing niceties like html markup in your little popup boxes, or other such things.

The responsibility for putting something you want in the box lies with thunar, or probably thunar-volman.  As far as I know the your customisation options lie somewhere between a) filing a bug and b) editing the libnotify call in thunar's code yourself.

There are also "themes" for libnotify popups...good luck compiling them.

(Sorry, I have no love for libnotify)

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