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student975

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Registered: 2011-03-05

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[solved] notify-send sends nothing

Is it for me only? - at some point I have noticed notify-send sends nothing.

Last edited by student975 (2011-04-24 09:42:08)

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jasonwryan

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Re: [solved] notify-send sends nothing

Have you tried running it from the command line to see what, if any errors you get?

If you are going to open a thread about an issue, please try and include some specifics...
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student975

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Registered: 2011-03-05

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Re: [solved] notify-send sends nothing

Yes, I have tried it from command line and have got literally nothing - nothing in terminal and nothing wrt notification itself (have tried under openbox and fluxbox).

Sorry I wasn't clear at first. I have suggested using CLI is the default way

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Arpione

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From: Pécs, Hungary

Registered: 2010-09-13

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Re: [solved] notify-send sends nothing

Do you have a notification daemon installed? A daemon like notification-daemon is needed to have working notifications.

student975

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Re: [solved] notify-send sends nothing

Do you have a notification daemon installed? A daemon like notification-daemon is needed to have working notifications.

Thanks! - you have resolved my issue. A daemon wasn't installed. Probably it was installed earlier  (and later removed) as someone's dependency. All OK is now.

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Skyalmian

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Registered: 2009-06-28

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Re: [solved] notify-send sends nothing

I've had the same issue since it upgraded. All "notify-send"s didn't work anymore. I checked, and yes, all relevant packages including notification-daemon were installed. "/usr/lib/notification-daemon-1.0/notification-daemon" within that one needed to always be actively running in order for "notify-send" to work, whereas before, it didn't. (Yes, I see the entry in the xinitrc page now...) But it's...ugly, and as far as I can tell, cannot be customized. It shows up in an over-large black and gray bubble (which does not look anything like with the GTK theme I'm using. Is it using GTK 3?) with an 'x'-to-close button in the upper right hand corner of the screen, and does not follow the notification time-out (-t #### or --expire-time=####) specified. Furthermore, a program that formerly could be used to customize such notifications, "notification-properties", is gone.

Last edited by Skyalmian (2011-05-13 21:39:06)

Skyalmian

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Re: [solved] notify-send sends nothing

[Solved] (another for this thread). I redid my Arch install some time back, but didn't take note of everything. The package I had been using was xfce4-notifyd (which does not need to run via xinitrc) not notification-daemon. This has the configuration tool aforementioned.

Last edited by Skyalmian (2011-05-15 04:10:49)