strange issue with notify-send

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On 12.09.2013 15:54, Ranjan Maitra wrote:

> Did you try this with xfce4-notifyd and its 3 dependencies uninstalled?
> It works for me (different, smaller font) with xfce4-notifyd installed,
> but not without it (in the sense that stuff "spills over"). 
> 
> To be clear, I install xfce4-notifyd and then it works. I uninstall and
> it does not work *after* I restart X.
> 
> Also, I don't know if this matters, but I am not using a DE, only a WM
> (openbox/pekwm).
>  
>> BTW GNOME's *libnotify* - a *library* for sending desktop notifications
>> to a notification daemon and *Xfce4-notifyd* - a simple,
>> visually-appealing notification *daemon* for Xfce are not the same
>> category. :)
> 
> I see: so what makes it work then when xfce4-notifyd is not installed?
> 
> I have the following installed (as per yum list \*notify\*)
> 
> 
> libnotify.x86_64                        0.7.5-5.fc19
> notify-python.x86_64                    0.1.1-23.fc19
> 
> Thanks very much!
> Ranjan
> 

$ rpm -q --whatrequires xfce4-notifyd
greybird-xfce4-notifyd-theme-1.2-1.fc19.noarch
There aren't too much dependencies. :)

You probably have a problem with the 'notification-daemon' and to adapt
it to the WM you use, you can modify the source code.
You know, it's open source. ;)
However.
You don't need to bother with the Xfce4-notifyd if you use a lightweight
WM like the Openbox, so
# yum --enablerepo updates-testing install dunst
$ mkdir ~/.config/dunst
$ cp /usr/share/dunst/dunstrc ~/.config/dunst/
Enjoy.


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