So... after ~6.5 years; 267 posts; and several thousand lines of unhappy, frustrated, and/or annoyed feedback, my man page is still lying to me about -t actually doing something and the devs are now adding "you can use someone else's software or write your own" to justify their design decision. Did I miss something?
I was going to shake my head in disgust and quietly move to another notification daemon until I saw the last few posts discussing how many people are annoyed by this issue. I would like to add myself to the statistic of "very unhappy, but would normally not comment on this bug report." Side note: Since other operating systems were brought up in the last post, I would like to note that Windows 10 (and presumably Vista through 8.1) at least have a global configuration option for their notification timeout duration. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to notify-osd in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390508 Title: notifyOSD ignores the expire timeout parameter Status in Ayatana Design: New Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Invalid Status in Message Web: New Status in notify-osd package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in notify-osd package in Arch Linux: New Bug description: Binary package hint: libnotify-bin adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 9.04 Release: 9.04 adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ apt-cache policy libnotify-bin libnotify-bin: Installed: 0.4.5-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 0.4.5-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 0.4.5-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ cat notify-send.c | grep expire_timeout static glong expire_timeout = NOTIFY_EXPIRES_DEFAULT; { "expire-time", 't', 0,G_OPTION_ARG_INT, &expire_timeout, notify_notification_set_timeout(notify, expire_timeout); adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/390508/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp