Comment 118 for bug 390508

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I also wasted a lot of time trying to figure out what's wrong.

Stoto

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On 2010.06.14., at 10:00, Otto Kekäläinen <email address hidden> wrote:

> I just wasted some time trying to figure out why what I am doing wrong
> in passing the timeout parameter to notify-send.
>
> Could you please resolve this bug by updating the man page to tell
> users, that the timeout parameter does not work with Notify-OSD? That
> would save people like me from wasting time on this in the future.
>
> --
> notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390508
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> Status in “notify-osd” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: libnotify-bin
>
> adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ lsb_release -rd
> Description: Ubuntu 9.04
> Release: 9.04
> adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$
>
> adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ apt-cache policy libnotify-
> bin
> libnotify-bin:
> Installed: 0.4.5-0ubuntu1
> Candidate: 0.4.5-0ubuntu1
> Version table:
> *** 0.4.5-0ubuntu1 0
> 500 http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$
>
> adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ cat notify-send.c | grep
> expire_timeout
> static glong expire_timeout = NOTIFY_EXPIRES_DEFAULT;
> { "expire-time", 't', 0,G_OPTION_ARG_INT, &expire_timeout,
> notify_notification_set_timeout(notify, expire_timeout);
> adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$
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