Xfce4-panel notification bubbles in wrong place -- cannot close or interact with them

[Liz Kaye]

Binary package hint: xfce4-panel

Whenever a program in Xfce4-panel's system tray has a notification bubble pop up, it's in the wrong place (much further down and to the right of the system tray. The "X" on the bubble seems to be off-screen so the notification bubble cannot be closed manually -- it must close on its own after time. Also, if the mouse attempts to hover over the notification bubble, it disappears.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Dec 1 09:20:20 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: xfce4-panel 4.6.1-3ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: xfce4-panel
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (xfce4-mixer-plugin:2004): libxfce4mixer-CRITICAL **: xfce_mixer_get_track: assertion `GST_IS_MIXER (card)' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2040): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Hi,

Thank you for your bug report. This is not a bug in xfce4-panel though, the "bubbles" come from notify-osd, and are designed that way (disappear on hover, no close button).

[phanyx (phanyx-deactivatedaccount)]

I would like to add another suggestion about notify bubbles' position. They cover xfce4-panel as they spawn, what forces me to close them to get to programs, that resident in the system tray. Maybe notify-osd could read the panel's height and adjust the position to avoid such situations?

[phanyx (phanyx-deactivatedaccount)]

Sorry, I've just realised, that this bubbles comes from notification-daemon package, not notify-osd, though I have both installed, what confused me (shouldn't they be in conflict?). Also I found out, that notify-osd can't be configured to spawn pop-ups from bottom right now, so I guess I will wait until it will be possible.