notify-osd launch assumes GDM

[Jonathan Riddell]

Binary package hint: notify-osd

The bit of shell in /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service to decide if notify-osd or notification-daemon should be run bases its decision on the $GDMSESSION variable, which is specific to GDM. I don't use GDM but I still want a full Ubuntu session with Ayatana bling.

KDM sets $DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome which is probably a better cross desktop variable to check.

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

I think this needs this "gnome-vanilla" or "gnome-straciatella" thing in order to trigger notify-osd being used instead of notification-daemon. Afaik, pitti wrote this session variation differentiation, he should be the best person to talk to regarding this.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Dear Jonathan,
what version of notify-osd and ubuntu do you use? because I ran "echo $DESKTOP_SESSION" and "echo "GDMSESSION", both returns me 'gnome' (actually I use gnome). I try to reproduce this in Jaunty with notify-osd 0.9.13 and Karmic Alpha 3 with notify-osd 0.9.16.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

I'm sorry, I made a mistake in last comment, command that I ran was: "echo $GDMSESSION" and "echo $DESKTOP_SESSION"

[Aurélien Gâteau (agateau)]

@Kamus: To reproduce the bug, you must be running KDM, not GDM.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

@Aurélien, I am upgrading and installing kdm ( I am sorry, I reproduce this only in gdm) in this moment I will back and leave a comment about this problem and by the way what version of ubuntu do you use? is your system up to date?

Regards!

[Aurélien Gâteau (agateau)]

Attached patch fixes the bug. It checks the value of $DESKTOP_SESSION instead of $GDM_SESSION and also runs notify-osd if $DESKTOP_SESSION is "kde".

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

Is this still a problem?

[Aurélien Gâteau (agateau)]

Yes it is.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

marking triaged to reflect the current status.