notifications huge

[Sean Davis]

Notifications have become ridiculously large, taking up a significant portion of the screen. See attached screenshots.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: notify-osd 0.9.34-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.33-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 29 07:21:24 2012
GtkTheme: Ambiance
IconTheme: ubuntu-mono-dark
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6400
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-20-generic root=UUID=f7b37638-1c73-44aa-acfe-747b434072df ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: notify-osd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
WindowManager: No value set for `/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager'
dmi.bios.date: 09/25/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A30
dmi.board.name: 0RX495
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA30:bd09/25/2011:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6400:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0RX495:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6400
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

Hm... did you by any chance increase your default system-font's size? Or is your gnome-settings-daemon not running (this can also cause an implicity switch to default/larger font-size)?

Since notify-osd takes the default system-font-size into account - for calculating its size (being EM-based to be resulution-independent) - a jump in size can happen if the above mentioned conditions are met.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sean Davis (bluesabre)]

Nope. Haven't adjusted any font settings or anything. Is it possible that it's related to this other issue I've been having? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/967023

[Pavol Klačanský (pavolzetor-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you try to login as guest, or new user, to check if it is matter of broken settings or package

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

Another thing you can do, to check what's going on, is to see your font-settings by doing...

  * gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface document-font-name
  * gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface font-name
  * gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name
  * gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor

... in a gnome-terminal window.

A simpler way (without touching the terminal) is to install the application "gnome-tweak-tool" via the software-center. That will give you also access to those settings in a more user-friendly fashion.

Most likely your systems text-scaling-factor has changed and causes notify-osd notification-bubbles to be larger.

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

@Sean to check if it's a similar issue as reported by you in LP: #967023, do these three commands is in a terminal after each other...

killall -15 notify-osd
/usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd &
notify-send "Test bubble" "A regular notification used for testing." -i info

... this will kill the current notify-osd instance, starting a new one (using any currently applied font-settings) and then triggers a dummy-notification for testing. See if notifications are still larger than you expect.

[Sean Davis (bluesabre)]

Everything looks fine in the guest account.

Also, killing notify-osd and starting a new one also seems to take care of the issue.

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

But when you boot and log into you normal user-account the notifications display still too large?

[Sean Davis (bluesabre)]

This is correct. And I also seem to be suffering from this issue:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/872740

Which is the first thing that pops up when I log in. It might be having some effect.. but I am considering a fresh install from beta 2 to see if I can alleviate these issues.