desktop notification positioning

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi everyone,

I have been having trouble configuring the positioning of the desktop 
(libnotify?) notifications. Neither can I configure the theme for the 
notifications. Is this a know bug or am I doing something wrong?

Here are some examples.

[1]http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/jalladandtux/screenies/notific...
[2]http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll164/jalladandtux/screenies/notific...

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Suvayu

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[Christoph Wickert]

Am Samstag, den 05.06.2010, 20:03 -0700 schrieb Suvayu Ali:
>  Hi everyone,
>  
>  I have been having trouble configuring the positioning of the desktop 
>  (libnotify?) notifications. Neither can I configure the theme for the 
>  notifications. Is this a know bug or am I doing something wrong? 
The problem is that you are configuring xfce4-notifyd, but your system
is using GNOME's notification-daemon.

notification-daemon has no graphical configuration but needs to be
configured through GConf. The keys are living
in /apps/notification-daemon/. You ether install gconf-editor or use the
command line:

$ gconftool-2 -s -t string /apps/notification-daemon/popup_location
bottom_right

Allowed values are "top_left","top_right","bottom_left" and
"bottom_right".

$ gconftool-2 -s -t string /apps/notification-daemon/theme Nodoka

Themes are ether "slider" (the black one) or "Nodoka", we have no
other
notification-daemon-engine-* packages in Fedora.

The big problem is that there currently is no way to set the preferred
notification-daemon, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/484945

But there are a few hacks, choose your favorite:
      * The system will use the daemon that was installed last, so you
        can uninstall one and reinstall it. notification-deamon needs to
        be uninstalled with rpm -e --nodeps, because of it's
        dependencies.
      * Edit  /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service
(notification-deamon) or xfce-org.freedesktop.Notifications.service (xfce4-notifd) and
change the line starting with Exec=...
      * Remove the file you don't need from
        the /usr/share/dbus-1/services/ directory

Hope this helps,
Christoph

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sunday 06 June 2010 01:00 AM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
>  Am Samstag, den 05.06.2010, 20:03 -0700 schrieb Suvayu Ali:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have been having trouble configuring the positioning of the desktop
> > (libnotify?) notifications. Neither can I configure the theme for the
> > notifications. Is this a know bug or am I doing something wrong?
>
>  The problem is that you are configuring xfce4-notifyd, but your system
>  is using GNOME's notification-daemon.
>
>  notification-daemon has no graphical configuration but needs to be
>  configured through GConf. The keys are living
>  in /apps/notification-daemon/. You ether install gconf-editor or use the
>  command line:
>
>  $ gconftool-2 -s -t string /apps/notification-daemon/popup_location
>  bottom_right
>
>  Allowed values are "top_left","top_right","bottom_left"
> and
>  "bottom_right".
>
>  $ gconftool-2 -s -t string /apps/notification-daemon/theme Nodoka
>
>  Themes are ether "slider" (the black one) or "Nodoka", we have no
> other
>  notification-daemon-engine-* packages in Fedora.
>
>  The big problem is that there currently is no way to set the preferred
>  notification-daemon, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/484945
>
>  But there are a few hacks, choose your favorite:
>         * The system will use the daemon that was installed last, so you
>           can uninstall one and reinstall it. notification-deamon needs to
>           be uninstalled with rpm -e --nodeps, because of it's
>           dependencies.
>         * Edit  /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service
> (notification-deamon) or xfce-org.freedesktop.Notifications.service (xfce4-notifd) and
> change the line starting with Exec=...
>         * Remove the file you don't need from
>           the /usr/share/dbus-1/services/ directory
>  
Thanks a lot Christoph for making the effort to respond in such great 
detail! :) Your response was very complete and helped a lot. I chose to 
use xfce4-notifyd, much more subtle and unobtrusive than 
notification-daemon. :)

>  Hope this helps,
>  Christoph
>  
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Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.