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notify-osd package

  1. Bug #390508
  2. Comment #112

Comment 112 for bug 390508

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Heather Van Wilde (heatheriac) wrote : Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter

> One could say that the bug is indeed upstream: It's in the man page, which should make it clear that some daemons might ignore the timeout setting.

Coming back full circle to the question of why the developers are refusing to have the daemon make proper use, which ends up breaking other programs (Thunderbird as explained earlier tonight) and make it so developers can't create new programs, and forcing said developers into using a tool that is unable to suit their needs.

In my case, as I described before, I want to use notify-osd to display a one or two word message for a second or two. No dialog box, nothing to click, and nothing on the taskbar. I am running all my stuff through a Python script (it's basically a fancy key mapper) so i'm not about to create a whole new osd application for this.

People have asked for examples of what these things are wanted for. Here's my example.