notication window does not follow panel

[Kees Cook]

Binary package hint: notify-osd

The notifications do not follow my panel, and appear floating over the upper right corner rather than the expected lower right, where notification used to appear near my panel.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD#Outside%20the%20bubble>: "The first bubble on a display should be positioned 0.5 em from the bottom of whichever panels are at the top of the display (or 0.5 em from the top of the display, if it has no top panels)."

So, the bubble in the screenshot is too low.

[Gareth Hart (tghe-retford)]

I was told in another bug that the notifications in notify-osd are fixed at the top of the screen and that it won't be fixed. Your only options would be to either have the panel at the top of the screen or compile your own version of notify-osd which places it where you wish. There will be no configuration options for notify-osd either. Shame really, because my panel is at the bottom and I keep missing the notifications because I too expect them at the bottom right where my notification area is.

[Eitan Isaacson (eeejay)]

notify-osd should look into panel gconf keys such as:
/apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel_screen0/orientation
/apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel_screen0/size

There are a lot of cases here that should be taken into account, including cantered or justified panels, autohidden panels, etc. To be on the safe side, I would do all of these checks for all "toplevels", since a user might have dragged the panels all over the screen and perhaps has swapped the bottom and top panel.

[Simon Chemouil (simon-chemouil)]

> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD#Outside%20the%20bubble>: "The first bubble on a display should be positioned 0.5 > em from the bottom of whichever panels are at the top of the display (or 0.5 em from the top of the display, if it has no > top panels)."

Well, that's stupid. It should be like that if there is a top panel or no horizontal panel at all, but if there is a bottom panel and no top panel, it should be there. Or, another smart positioning would be wherever the system notification tray is.

+1 for this bug, really. It would be a shame to try to improve desktop ergonomics and leave that as it is. I don't have a panel at the top of my Gnome desktop. As much as I like Jaunty, this makes me want to rip notify-osd out of my install even if I lose all notifications in the process.

There's a notification-properties utility that doesn't seem to do anything.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

notification-properties isn't installed by default because it configures notification-daemon, not Notify OSD.

[Igor Wojnicki (wojnicki)]

What's worse, if the panel is hidden notifications are not showed at all!

[Igor Wojnicki (wojnicki)]

Actually they do show up. I've got a dual-head setup with a secondary display on the right. If the panel is hidden the notifications show up on the secondary one, instead of on primary (the one with the panel).

[radostyle (mr--jon)]

I can confirm what Igor says, I have a dual head setup and instead of putting the notifications on big screen that I have plugged into my laptop (where the panel is), it gets put on the top right corner of my laptop screen, which I am not looking at. It should be in the notification area of the panel, I miss the notifications when it is on my laptop screen.

[lucyg (lgenaizir)]

Same here. I have my panel at bottom and I miss a lot of notifications because I don't expect them to be at top. Also, is not logical that aplications like pidgin are at the bottom but new messages are shown at top...

[Vaughan (fireman-biff)]

I am use a laptop with an external monitor. The laptop monitor uses 1280x800 and the external monitor uses 1280x1024 (these are the recommended resolutions for each screen). The external is the primary monitor and has the panel, and the screens are positioned so that the bottom of the external monitor is in line with the bottom of the laptop monitor.

As a result of this configuration the area that the notifications appear in, is actually located off of both monitors where I cannot see them (above the laptop display and to the right of the external display). I though that the notifications just weren't working with the dual display, but I just realized that for some reason they were showing outside the viewable area.

I have attached a screenshot to show what I mean.

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

You can use the gconf-key "/apps/notify-osd/gravity" set to 2 and set "/apps/notify-osd/multihead_mode" to "focus-follow" that way you'll see notification-bubbles being displayed in the visible area.

[ktalinu (ktalinu)]

I don't have the "/apps/notify-osd/" ...

[Vaughan (fireman-biff)]

Are we supposed to get an updated version of notify-osd from somewhere first? I don't have /apps/notify-osd either and I have already upgraded all packages with apt-get.