On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Kevin J. McCarthy <ke...@8t8.us> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:07:58PM +0200, Alberts Muktupāvels wrote: > > Openbox is window manager, why should it start something? > > Openbox runs the XDG autostart programs because it is helpful. This way > when I install, say, parcimonie or hplip-gui or notification-daemon, all > those packages need to do is create an /etc/xdg/autostart file, and they > are launched for my X session. > Don't know anything about openbox, but in GNOME applications are not started by window managers but by gnome-session. > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Kevin McCarthy <ke...@8t8.us> wrote: > > > 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. > > I see. I wasn't aware that notification-daemon was a Gnome project > package. Perhaps it should have been named gnome-notification-daemon to > make this clearer? Will the package be removed now that GNOME-Flashback > isn't using it either? > It was used by GNOME, now it is used by GNOME Flashback. In 3.20 it will not be used by GNOME-Flashback too, I have already pushed needed changes to notification-daemon and gnome-flashback master branches. It is up to debian packagers/maintainers if it will be removed. I was responding only as current upstream maintainer. In any case, I will install another implementation, such as dunst. > If you want you can add autostart file for notification-daemon in your home dir: ~/.config/autostart Please feel free to close this bug out. > > > If your desktop environment uses notification-daemon then it must install > > autostart file for it. > > Just to correct this misunderstanding, my "desktop environment" isn't > using notification-daemon. Debian packages that I have installed, > e.g. profanity, depend on libnotify4, which in turn recommends > notification-daemon. However, I mistakenly installed the actual > "notification-daemon" package, thinking it was a generic solution. > There is nothing specific to GNOME in notification-daemon so you can use it generic solution if you want. -- Alberts Muktupāvels