Notifications are suppressed when Totem is playing media

[Draycen DeCator]

Binary package hint: totem

While Totem is playing media (audio or video), notifications are suppressed (tested using notify-send). As soon as Totem is paused, notifications work once again. This happens even if the player is not full-screen. I thought this might be due to a setting that disables notifications in case the user is trying to watch a video full-screen, but I could not find a setting for this in Totem's preferences or gconf. Other media players do not cause this issue.

To reproduce:
1. Open a terminal and enter 'notify-send test', which produces a notification saying 'test'
2. Start playing a video or audio file with Totem
3. Try running 'notify-send test' again, which should not produce any notification
4. Pause Totem, then execute 'notify-send test' one more time, which should work

This may be a GNOME-specific issue since a friend who tested this on KDE said he was unable to reproduce it. However, if that's the case I'm not sure what package is responsible.

I'm using Lucid, fully up to date.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: totem 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon May 17 17:53:59 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem

[Draycen DeCator (ddecator)]

Running notify-osd in a terminal, then reproducing this bug causes the following output:

draycen@Draycen-Ubuntu:/usr/lib/notify-osd$ ./notify-osd
** (notify-osd:11114): DEBUG: [2010-05-17T18:24:26-00:00, notify-send, id:0, icon:] test

** (notify-osd:11114): DEBUG: Screensaver has been inhibited
^C
draycen@Draycen-Ubuntu:/usr/lib/notify-osd$

Note: I do not have my screensaver enabled at all, and the option in totem to disable the screensaver is not active (enabling it makes no difference).

[Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak)]

Confirming that it affects notify-osd.... but not notification-daemon.