*Tip: xfce4-notifyd not rearranging annoyance workaround:*
Fedora 37 libnotify-0.8.2-1.fc37.x86_64 xfce4-notifyd-0.6.4-1.fc37.x86_64 osmo-0.4.4-2.fc37.x86_64 https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/-/issues/154
*Background*: when a popup is issued to libnotify, xfce4-notifyd intercepts it. xfce4-notifyd changes the yellow and blue background to white and alters the font size somewhat. There may be some transparency too, but I am not sure.
Problem: as of Fedora 33 (and whatever Xfce is supported) xfce4-notifyd will no longer re-arrange popups went you cancel one (“remind me later”, “done”, etc.). When a lot of popups occur, xfce4-notifyd will thereby leave popups right in the middle of your screen or at the bottom right. In other word, right where they were to start with.
So you are left with having to write down the popup on a piece of paper or suffering with the popup in the middle of your screen. Prior behavior would be to mouse over the remaining pops and they would auto arrange under right the upper right of your screen.
This behavior is especially annoying when you are using Osmo (a wonderful personal information manager)
This unwanted behavior was reported on issue 154 and currently has a “won’t fix” status.
*Workaround:*
Kill xfce4-notifyd and let libnotify handle the pops directly.
$ kill -9 $( ps ax | grep -i [x]fce4-notifyd | awk '{print $1'} )
Or you can just remove xfce4-notifyd completely:
$ su root -c "dnf remove xfce4-notifyd"
This restores the previous behavior (happy camping returns).
*screenshots*
Here is a example of the previous libnotify behavior with xfce4-notifyd killed :
Five popups arranged in the upper right: https://imgur.com/aZ06AVxl.png
Center three pops cancelled: https://imgur.com/5gEVcg1.png
Hope this helps someone else, -T
On 6/20/23 09:35, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
*Tip: xfce4-notifyd not rearranging annoyance workaround:*
Fedora 37 libnotify-0.8.2-1.fc37.x86_64 xfce4-notifyd-0.6.4-1.fc37.x86_64 osmo-0.4.4-2.fc37.x86_64 https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/-/issues/154
*Background*: when a popup is issued to libnotify, xfce4-notifyd intercepts it. xfce4-notifyd changes the yellow and blue background to white and alters the font size somewhat. There may be some transparency too, but I am not sure.
Problem: as of Fedora 33 (and whatever Xfce is supported) xfce4-notifyd will no longer re-arrange popups went you cancel one (“remind me later”, “done”, etc.). When a lot of popups occur, xfce4-notifyd will thereby leave popups right in the middle of your screen or at the bottom right. In other word, right where they were to start with.
So you are left with having to write down the popup on a piece of paper or suffering with the popup in the middle of your screen. Prior behavior would be to mouse over the remaining pops and they would auto arrange under right the upper right of your screen.
This behavior is especially annoying when you are using Osmo (a wonderful personal information manager)
This unwanted behavior was reported on issue 154 and currently has a “won’t fix” status.
*Workaround:*
Kill xfce4-notifyd and let libnotify handle the pops directly.
$ kill -9 $( ps ax | grep -i [x]fce4-notifyd | awk '{print $1'} )
Or you can just remove xfce4-notifyd completely:
$ su root -c "dnf remove xfce4-notifyd"
This restores the previous behavior (happy camping returns).
*screenshots*
Here is a example of the previous libnotify behavior with xfce4-notifyd killed :
Five popups arranged in the upper right: https://imgur.com/aZ06AVxl.png
Center three pops cancelled: https://imgur.com/5gEVcg1.png
Hope this helps someone else, -T
Hi All,
A booboo in my first post:
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/-/issues/154
is a duplicate of
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/-/issues/54
The maintainer closed issue 54 as leaving pops where they occurred and not auto arranging them is part of xfce4-notifyd's design spec..
So now you have a choice. If when multiple pops occur -- some right in the middle of your work -- and you do not mind having them not auto arrange out of the way, you can stick with xfce4-notifyd. xfce4-notifyd's popups are prettier too.
I have been running without xfce4-notifyd for a few days now and am delighted to have libnotify's auto arrange feature back.
I have also noticed that a popup I have been firing off for about five years now at log on and forgot about suddenly showed up.
I reported the issue over on
https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-notifyd/-/issues/106
but the maintainer closed it because it was no longer affecting me. (I reported it to help others still running xfce4-notifyd. I am not the only one running Xfce after all.)
The call to libnotify in question was:
notify-send -t 0 -u normal -i "${DrivePic}" "Boot Drive" "${BootDrive}"
Let me know if anyone wants the entire script (it is also posted over on issue 106).
You got to love Xfce!
-T
Be nice if we could amend xfce4-notifyd's spec. to accommodate auto arrange.
Hi All,
Jut uncovered something else different between xfce4-notifyd and libnotify.
With libnotify, when Thunderbird pops up a new mail alert, if you do not let it time out and do not click the "X" in the upper right corner, but instead click on the pop up itself, Thunderbird will open to the eMail.
With xfce4-notifyd, it just exits the popup. I have no idea is this is part of xfce4-notifyd's spec..
Xfce4-notifyd colors are prettier though. But I like the extra functionality of libnotify.
-T
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ToddAndMargo