Bug#773097: mate-notification-daemon: this is still an issue with the latest 1.8.2-1 re; eased to experimental.

[Mike Gabriel]

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Hi,

----- Original message -----
> at bottom :-
> 
> On 3/16/15, Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:
> > Dear shirish,
> > 
> > On   So 15 Mär 2015 20:20:10 CET, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> > 
> > > Dear Maintainer,
> > > As can be seen it's still an issue even with the binary on
> > > experimental. As shared by others there is nothing on the TUI/CLI but
> > > the moment you click on preview you get the preview only on the top
> > > right, not on top left as shared. Tried changing both theme and
> > > position but neither of the two changed.
> > > 
> > > Please let us know if any more info. is needed.
> > 
> > I cannot confirm this issue here.
> > 
> > Is it possible that you are actually seeing notifications from another
> > notification-daemon provider, e.g., notify-osd (XFCE),
> > notification-daemon (GNOMEv3), etc.?
> > 
> > Check output of ps aux | grep notif, what daemon is actually running
> > and if mate-notification is _really_ running for the current $DISPLAY.
> 
> Aha, that solved it. First kde-notify was rearing it head. Once I
> disabled it, then xfce4-notifyd was doing the same.
> 
> Once I disabled both (commenting both the services at
> /usr/share/dbus-1/services) namely org.kde.knotify.service and
> org.xfce.xfce4-notifyd.Notifications.service the Exec part, rebooted
> and it was working as it should be.
> 
> So false alarm at my end at least. Maybe the others need to check as
> well.
> 

assuming that the original bug submitter had a similar setup when stumbling over the above issue.

This is not a MATE, but a conceptional issue in Debian when multiple desktops and their components are installed.

@Patrick: feel free to reopen, if the above does not explain your system's behaviour.

Mike

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