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pidgin-libnotify package

Pidgin no longer works with libnotify

Bug #337078 reported by Mackenzie Morgan
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
pidgin-libnotify (Ubuntu)
Invalid
High
Ted Gould
Ubuntu ubuntu-9.04-beta

Bug Description

Binary package hint: pidgin

Since Canonical's new notification system went into Jaunty, Pidgin's libnotify plugin doesn't display any notifications. I tried removing notify-osd (and stopping the already running process) and restarting Pidgin to see how it would behave for normal Kubuntu users that happen to prefer Pidgin and don't have ubuntu-desktop installed. The answer is: no notifications are displayed at all now.

pidgin:
  Installed: 1:2.5.4-2ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1:2.5.4-2ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.5.4-2ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
pidgin-libnotify:
  Installed: 0.14-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.14-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.14-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libnotify1:
  Installed: 0.4.5-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.4.5-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.4.5-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Tags: regression
Revision history for this message
Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

I think restoring this functionality is important both for flavors not using notify-osd and for gnome-stracciatella-session

Changed in pidgin-libnotify:
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → ubuntu-9.04-beta
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Ted Gould (ted) wrote :

Hmm, that is really odd. I'm not sure what could have changed there. I don't have a Kubuntu system handy at the moment, can you see if anyone is advertising as a notification daemon on DBus? If you use a DBus monitor like d-feet you should see someone with the name "org.freedesktop.Notifications". To check if it works, try calling "GetCapabilities" and see what it returns.

Thanks!

Changed in pidgin-libnotify:
assignee: nobody → ted-gould
Revision history for this message
Ted Gould (ted) wrote :

Oh, also you can check to see if notify-send does anything:

$ notify-send hello

That should pop up a notification bubble.

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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote : Re: [Bug 337078] Re: Pidgin no longer works with libnotify

Actually I was using GNOME (trying to see if the Indicator Applet does
anything yet) when I tested removing notify-osd and stopping its daemon.

I'm still in GNOME, and notify-osd and knotify4 were both running. I just
killed notify-osd. Nothing happens when I use "notify-send"

Revision history for this message
Ted Gould (ted) wrote :

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 21:34 +0000, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> I'm still in GNOME, and notify-osd and knotify4 were both running. I just
> killed notify-osd. Nothing happens when I use "notify-send"

Hmm, if you can check to see if someone has that name on the bus, that'd
be great. It might be that knotify4 is not queueing on the name. It
should queue so that if one goes away, it gets it.

If notify-send doesn't work then there isn't an issue with
pidgin-libnotify, it would be something with your notification daemon.

Revision history for this message
Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote :

I think maybe a log out (of gnome) was required to switch to libnotify stuff. I
was just restarting Pidgin between tests. Sorry for the interruption.

 status invalid

Changed in pidgin-libnotify:
status: New → Invalid
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