Pidgin no longer works with libnotify

[Mackenzie Morgan]

Binary package hint: pidgin

Since Canonical's new notification system went into Jaunty, Pidgin's libnotify plugin doesn't display any notifications. I tried removing notify-osd (and stopping the already running process) and restarting Pidgin to see how it would behave for normal Kubuntu users that happen to prefer Pidgin and don't have ubuntu-desktop installed. The answer is: no notifications are displayed at all now.

pidgin:
  Installed: 1:2.5.4-2ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:2.5.4-2ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.5.4-2ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
pidgin-libnotify:
  Installed: 0.14-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.14-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.14-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libnotify1:
  Installed: 0.4.5-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.4.5-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.4.5-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

I think restoring this functionality is important both for flavors not using notify-osd and for gnome-stracciatella-session

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Hmm, that is really odd. I'm not sure what could have changed there. I don't have a Kubuntu system handy at the moment, can you see if anyone is advertising as a notification daemon on DBus? If you use a DBus monitor like d-feet you should see someone with the name "org.freedesktop.Notifications". To check if it works, try calling "GetCapabilities" and see what it returns.

Thanks!

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Oh, also you can check to see if notify-send does anything:

$ notify-send hello

That should pop up a notification bubble.

[Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)]

Actually I was using GNOME (trying to see if the Indicator Applet does
anything yet) when I tested removing notify-osd and stopping its daemon.

I'm still in GNOME, and notify-osd and knotify4 were both running. I just
killed notify-osd. Nothing happens when I use "notify-send"

[Ted Gould (ted)]

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 21:34 +0000, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> I'm still in GNOME, and notify-osd and knotify4 were both running. I just
> killed notify-osd. Nothing happens when I use "notify-send"

Hmm, if you can check to see if someone has that name on the bus, that'd
be great. It might be that knotify4 is not queueing on the name. It
should queue so that if one goes away, it gets it.

If notify-send doesn't work then there isn't an issue with
pidgin-libnotify, it would be something with your notification daemon.

[Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)]

I think maybe a log out (of gnome) was required to switch to libnotify stuff. I
was just restarting Pidgin between tests. Sorry for the interruption.

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