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cb474

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Conflicting notifications daemons - Gnome and Xfce4

I use Gnome, but want to try out Xfce. When I try to install it I get this warming from pacman:

xfce4-notifyd and notification-daemon are in conflict. Remove notification-daemon?

Removing notification-daemon doesn't seem like a great idea since Gnome needs it.

I found an old thread where someone was having the same problem, but the other way around, an Xfce user wanting to try Gnome. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77694 The suggestion was to just uninstall xfce4-notifyd and reinstall it once the person was done trying out Gnome.

I can do that, but shouldn't it be possible to have more than one desktop installed on a Linux system at the same time?

I see that Redhat considered this a bug back in 2009 and patched it. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500513

ngoonee

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Re: Conflicting notifications daemons - Gnome and Xfce4

pacman -Si xfce4-notifyd | grep Provides

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cb474

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Re: Conflicting notifications daemons - Gnome and Xfce4

Thanks for the reply. I don't know what "provides" means in this context. Could you explain a little?

ngoonee

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Re: Conflicting notifications daemons - Gnome and Xfce4

man pkgbuild

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cb474

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Re: Conflicting notifications daemons - Gnome and Xfce4

Okay, I get it. Thanks.

ngoonee

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Re: Conflicting notifications daemons - Gnome and Xfce4

Please mark your thread solved if it has been. And you're welcome

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hadrurus

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Re: Conflicting notifications daemons - Gnome and Xfce4

For all those not exactly impressed by standard RTFM&GTFO info:
xfce4-notifyd provides notification-daemon
So it should be safe to replace notification-daemon with xfce4-notifyd (just trying out XFCE while using Gnome.
I guess OP never actually tried pacman oneliner provided earlier

regards

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