New notification system not working after upgrade

[_dan_]

After upragding on my Desktop to 9.04, the new notification system style is not there/working.
On my laptop (fresh install) notification appear in the upper right corner, on my desktop the old system is still in place, notification appearing near the systray (network manager for example) or at the bottom right (thunderbird, transmission).
I am running not the human theme nor the human icons, but i am unable to switch back to see iof its the themes fault (reported that big also)

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

What exactely do you mean by "not there/working"? Are you missing icons in the notifications on your freshly installed laptop?

To narrow down what's actually not working correctly on your laptop set the icon theme to Human. Try these commands:

notify-send "Joe Doe" "This is a test message" -i notification-message-im
notify-send "New eMail arrived" -i notification-message-email
notify-send "Volume" -i notification-audio-volume-medium -h int:value:75 -h string:x-canonical-private-synchronous:

Attach screenshots of these notifications to this bug-report.

Change you icon-theme back to your usual one and repeat these commands:

notify-send "Joe Doe" "This is a test message" -i notification-message-im
notify-send "New eMail arrived" -i notification-message-email
notify-send "Volume" -i notification-audio-volume-medium -h int:value:75 -h string:x-canonical-private-synchronous:

Also make screenshots of these and attach them to this bug-report. Thanks in advance.

[_dan_ (dan-void)]

I already fixed the Problem.
I was also unable to change themes, icons, mousepointer etc.
Problem of all that was that in 8.10 i removed ubunu-desktop due to some stupid dependency issues.
So during dist-upgrade ubuntu-desktop package was not installed, which partly broke the upgraded system as described.(notify not installed, theme switching impossible, icontheme switching impossible)
So due to missing ubuntu-desktop meta package, notify-osd did not get installed.

Upgrade process should maybe take that in account and reinstall all needed meta packages.

After fixing it manually, all works fine again.

[zeke (aaron-carr)]

I had a similar problem to this. I'm using Ubuntu Studio, which of course doesn't use the Ubuntu-desktop meta package, so notify-osd wasn't installed during the upgrade from intrepid to jaunty.

I searched for notify-osd in synaptic and installed it. Then I tested it with some of the commands posted above. It didn't work -- it told me some lib file had to be installed. I don't remember which one, I just copy and pasted it at the end of apt-get line to install it. After that I tried the commands again and notifications started working, but in the old style. So I restarted X, and now it's all working properly.

Seems like there really should be a fix with this ubuntu-desktop meta package, though, as not everyone uses it -- and different versions of Ubuntu don't use it at all.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

is that still an issue?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!