Ubuntu notify-osd on Gnome 2.30

Hyugga · 2010-05-05 23:55:39

I installed notify-osd on my Arch64. Everything is right but i dont have new notifications for the volume and the brightness.
When i press the fn keys the old notifications still appears.
I know you don't have to install other packages in gnome 2.30. I've read this http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Notify_OSD. It says that only installing notify-osd from AUR is enough.
How can i have new notifications for volume and brightness control???

schen · 2010-05-06 02:05:44

Have you rebooted?

Hyugga · 2010-05-06 02:31:30

Yes, several times.
And another thing, when i raise the brightness to the max, another annoying notification appears every time i press the key once more, how can i fix this?

Help!

wonder · 2010-05-06 09:57:03

for the nice and slick osd for volume and brightness you need to have a compositing manager enabled. to enable it open gconf-editor and enable apps/metacity/general/compositing manager.

Woofie · 2010-05-06 18:00:27

I'll try composite manager but they didn't solve it.

Hyugga · 2010-05-06 18:17:49

I enabled the compositing manager and now the osd for volume and brightness looks really nice. However they still appear in the center bottom of the screen. How can i make them appear in the upper left?
How can i get rid of the notification when i raise the brightness to the max?
Thanks for the fast reply.

Hyugga · 2010-05-07 00:52:56

No one installed notify-osd succesfully?

schen · 2010-05-07 00:53:56

What WM/DE do you use?

EDIT: nvm, that's a stupid question.

Last edited by schen (2010-05-07 00:55:05)

Hyugga · 2010-05-07 01:08:46

Thaks for reply anyway... (gnome 2.30 and metacity)...

wonder · 2010-05-07 01:31:27

i think you need to patch gnome-media and gnome-power-manager to achieve what you want

Hyugga · 2010-05-07 02:28:00

But here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Notify_OSD says that you don't need anything else.
I there someone with gnome 2.30 and notify-osd working properly?

ahioros · 2010-05-07 05:17:58

notify-osd isn't work porperly ... show only one notification a time for app....

Hyugga · 2010-05-10 02:07:52

Nothing yet?

schen · 2010-05-10 22:00:04

Try installing the patches anyway.

Hyugga · 2010-05-11 06:08:43

Mmm the installation from AUR failed....
The packages are marked as "Out of Date"...

Last edited by Hyugga (2010-05-11 06:09:19)

hokasch · 2010-05-11 11:07:08

The packages are out of date - you have to figure out yourself if the patches for 2.28 still work with 2.30. Doubt it though.
You best bet would probably be to file a bug/ask here:
https://launchpad.net/notify-osd

elric · 2010-05-11 11:10:26

I found this script that allows you integrate the volume into notify-osd

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69589

Save the script as "vol", cp to /usr/bin (or wherever in the PATH). Next, configure volume shortcuts under System -> Pref -> Keyb Shortcuts, being the commands "vol up" "vol down" and "vol mute". This done, it worked instantaneously in my system. I'm sure you can make more stuff, didn't read the script closely.

[Solved] If somebody comes up with the brightness issue, I would be forever grateful

Next, the brightness. This is the script found in http://foro.archlinux.cl/viewtopic.php?id=61, where you can also find a different script for volume (didn't try that one is the one mentioned works perfectly).

#!/bin/sh
brightness=`cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/actual_brightness` 
brillo=`expr $brightness "*" 100 "/" 9`
notify-send " " -i notification-display-brightness-low -h int:value:$brillo -h string:x-canonical-private-synchronous:brightness &

Replace "9" with the number that the following returns when brightness is at its highest.

cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/actual_brightness

Now you need to configure the shortcuts, i.e. Create one called Brightdown, with the script as a command, and then you bind the shortcut to what you do to set the brightness down. Repeat for Brightup, same script/command, different shortcut.

Hooray!! I wanted to do this for long, just realized it is now possible.

Last edited by elric (2010-05-11 11:39:45)

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#1 2010-05-05 23:55:39

Ubuntu notify-osd on Gnome 2.30

#2 2010-05-06 02:05:44

Re: Ubuntu notify-osd on Gnome 2.30

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Re: Ubuntu notify-osd on Gnome 2.30

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