Ubuntu
notify-osd package

Notifications appearing in the wrong position

Bug #420700 reported by Dominik George
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: notify-osd

After the latest upgrade, notifications are shown vertically centered instead of in the upper right corner where the notification panel is.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 28 20:49:31 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
GtkTheme: Human
IconTheme: gnome
MachineType: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. SR700
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: notify-osd 0.9.19-0ubuntu1
PccardctlIdent:

PccardctlStatus:

ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=11d63452-9e97-4dec-a200-7234e7a9b9bd ro splash vga=0x365
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-8.28-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu3
 libdrm2 2.4.12+git20090801.45078630-0ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-0ubuntu6
SourcePackage: notify-osd
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-8-generic x86_64
WindowManager: gnome-wm
dmi.bios.date: 05/21/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
dmi.bios.version: 07SR
dmi.board.name: SR700
dmi.board.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvr07SR:bd05/21/2008:svnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:pnSR700:pvr07SR:rvnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:rnSR700:rvr:cvnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: SR700
dmi.product.version: 07SR
dmi.sys.vendor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

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Dominik George (natureshadow) wrote :
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Mark Nevill (nevillm) wrote :

Looking through the notify-osd source, it seems this is an *enhancement*, identified with PLACEMENT_NEW in the source, and set in bubble_new() with no way of changing it. How is having bubbles appear in the middle of nowhere an improvement?

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Dominik George (natureshadow) wrote :

@Mark Nevill: I think that might be for the necessary amount of surprise every user should be entitled to :P ...

Anyway, I grepped through all the GConf files and couldn't find any setting for that.

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