gnome-flashback (compiz) missing notifications
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu GNOME Flashback |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
System: Ubuntu 16.10 fresh install, up-to-date packages, nvidia proprietary driver
Session: gnome-flashback (compiz), also holds for (metacity)
Volume up/down and brightness keys don't trigger notifications, so the visual information on what the current levels are is missing.
Running
notify-send test
shows a black text on white opaque background closeable notification in the top right corner.
The package notification-daemon (apparently used in flashback sessions on previous Ubuntu releases) is NOT installed.
Opening a terminal and running
export $(dbus-launch)
notify-send test
yields Ubuntu's expected white text on black transparent background notification. This only works for notifications from this terminal though.
Adding the export line to Startup Applications or ~/.profile doesn't help.
Running (after rebooting, without the export)
/usr/
yields
** (notify-osd:8511): WARNING **: Another instance has already registered org.freedesktop
** (notify-osd:8511): WARNING **: Could not register instance
and running
dbus-launch /usr/lib/
just hangs.
What can I do to launch notify-osd or have dbus-launch correctly starting up?
Volume/brightness notifications used to work in 16.04 for the flashback sessions, showing the Ubuntu white-on-
Hi,
Please try to remove notify-osd and run this command:
$ gsettings get org.gnome. gnome-flashback notifications