On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Kevin McCarthy <ke...@8t8.us> wrote:
> Package: notification-daemon > Version: 3.18.1-1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I use the openbox window manager. In jessie, notifications from > applications using libnotify would display, but I recently updated to > stretch and discovered the notifications were no longer displaying. > > After some poking around, I found it was because there is a > "OnlyShowIn=GNOME-Flashback" line in > /etc/xdg/autostart/notification-daemon-autostart.desktop, which causes > openbox not to start the daemon. > Openbox is window manager, why should it start something? It seems like the notifications would be useful for all desktop > environments. Would it be unreasonable to remove the "OnlyShowIn" > line from the autostart file, or would this cause problems in some > desktops? > GNOME does not use notification-daemon so starting it in all desktop environments is not solution. Also I plan to stop using notification-daemon for GNOME-Flashback, so autostart file will be removed. If your desktop environment uses notification-daemon then it must install autostart file for it. -- Alberts Muktupāvels
