popup shown in incorrect location

[Captain Chaos]

I have three monitors, in a Xinerama configuration. The middle monitor is screen 0 or the primary screen, and it has the menu and notifications bar and the taskbar on it. Whenever a popup is shown for new email or chat message, it is shown about a third of the way from the left of the (middle) screen, instead of being shown in the top right hand corner.

What I suspect is happening is that it is confusing two different coordinate systems. It is probably taking the width of the primary screen, or the location of the taskbar icon relative to the primary screen or something like that, and applying it to the coordinate system of the entire deskop, which starts at the left side of the *left* screen.

I have attached my Xorg.conf file for details of the screen layout. This is happening on Ubuntu 9.04 / indicator-applet 0.1.

[Captain Chaos (launchpad-chaos)]

I suspect I have assigned this bug to the wrong package. It should be notify-osd. Fixed.

[Captain Chaos (launchpad-chaos)]

I attached a screenshot demonstrating the problem. Please note that this screenshot spans three monitors. The Firefox window in the middle represents my middle, primary, monitor.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

I couldn't get the same setup to try to reproduce the bug, but I've double checked the code that is in Jaunty and now Karmic, and I don't see the kind of mismatch that you mention as potential cause. Could you give a try to the latest version of notify-osd to let me know if the bug still exists for you?

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

Thanks for filing this bug. To help us to figure out whats wrong, could you please run notify-osd in a terminal, this command should work:

$ killall notify-osd; /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd

and then either let it run while a few notifications popup, or cause some notifications using the volume keys or the `notify-send` command.

Once you've had a few notifications, please attach the output of notify-osd to this bug report. It should be printing out various information, including the monitor information, which should tell us what values it's using. I'm marking this bug as incomplete until you've provided the information.

[Captain Chaos (launchpad-chaos)]

I did as you said and changed the volume up and down a few times. The popup was still in the wrong location. I installed the latest updates so I assume I'm using the latest version of notify-osd. Here is the output it gave:

Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".

(notify-osd:4603): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_param_spec_int: assertion `default_value >= minimum && default_value <= maximum' failed

(notify-osd:4603): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_class_install_property: assertion `G_IS_PARAM_SPEC (pspec)' failed

(notify-osd:4603): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_set_valist: object class `Defaults' has no property named `desktop-width'

(notify-osd:4603): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: value "4480" of type `gint' is invalid or out of range for property `desktop-right' of type `gint'
** (notify-osd:4603): DEBUG: [2009-09-15T13:54:59-00:00, gnome-settings-daemon, id:0, icon:notification-audio-volume-high (synchronous)]

** (notify-osd:4603): DEBUG: selecting monitor 0 at (1280,0) - 1920x1200
** (notify-osd:4603): DEBUG: no panel detetected; using workarea fallback

(notify-osd:4603): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_set_valist: object class `Defaults' has no property named `desktop-width'

(notify-osd:4603): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: value "4480" of type `gint' is invalid or out of range for property `desktop-right' of type `gint'

(notify-osd:4603): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_get_valist: object class `Defaults' has no property named `desktop-width'
** (notify-osd:4603): DEBUG: top corner at: 1606, 22
** (notify-osd:4603): DEBUG: [2009-09-15T13:54:59-00:00, gnome-settings-daemon, id:0, icon:notification-audio-volume-high (synchronous)]

** (notify-osd:4603): DEBUG: [2009-09-15T13:55:00-00:00, gnome-settings-daemon, id:0, icon:notification-audio-volume-high (synchronous)]

** (notify-osd:4603): DEBUG: [2009-09-15T13:55:06-00:00, gnome-settings-daemon, id:0, icon:notification-audio-volume-high (synchronous)]

** (notify-osd:4603): DEBUG: selecting monitor 0 at (1280,0) - 1920x1200
** (notify-osd:4603): DEBUG: no panel detetected; using workarea fallback

(notify-osd:4603): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_set_valist: object class `Defaults' has no property named `desktop-width'

(notify-osd:4603): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: value "4480" of type `gint' is invalid or out of range for property `desktop-right' of type `gint'

(notify-osd:4603): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: IA__g_object_get_valist: object class `Defaults' has no property named `desktop-width'
** (notify-osd:4603): DEBUG: top corner at: 1606, 22
** (notify-osd:4603): DEBUG: [2009-09-15T13:55:06-00:00, gnome-settings-daemon, id:0, icon:notification-audio-volume-high (synchronous)]

** (notify-osd:4603): DEBUG: [2009-09-15T13:55:07-00:00, gnome-settings-daemon, id:0, icon:notification-audio-volume-high (synchronous)]

** (notify-osd:4603): DEBUG: [2009-09-15T13:55:07-00:00, gnome-settings-daemon, id:0, icon:notification-audio-volume-high (synchronous)]

** (notify-osd:4603): DEBUG: [2009-09-15T13:55:07-00:00, gnome-settings-daemon, id:0, icon:notification-audio-volume-high (synchronous)]

** (notify-osd:4603): DEBUG: [2009-09-15T13:5...

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

I've fixed this in https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~macslow/notify-osd/fix-375408. If you're very impatient ;) to try it out, you can grab that branch, compile and run it yourself. It'll take some time to land in the repository and be picked up by synaptic or the normal update-manager.