Caffeine appears to block notifications generated via libnotify
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caffeine |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
A recent update to caffeine appears to block all notification bubbles generated via libnotify, though curiously not confirmation bubbles (e.g. volume increase/decrease, mute, etc.).
I am currently running the latest version of caffeine (on Natty) as provided for by the official stable caffeine PPA. Synaptic reports this as version 2.2+386~natty1.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Install the latest version of Caffeine (2.2+386~natty1).
2. Disable screensaver (with Caffeine, of course)
3. Open a terminal window and run the following command: notify-send "Test"
4. Note the lack of a notification bubble
5. Enable screensaver (again with Caffeine)
6. Run the above command (in a terminal) again.
7. Note the presence of a notification bubble (confirming that the command does indeed work)
| Lee Hyde (anubeon) wrote | #1 |
| Tommy Brunn (tommybrunn) wrote | #2 |
Whoops! It appears that this bug is a duplicate of an older bug (#593649) already on file. I've marked this as a duplicate, but I am frankly amazed that, that bug is tagged as WontFix.
If this isn't fixed soon Caffeine will become a hindrance to my work-flow. I use Caffeine at work to prevent my office laptop from entering suspension when I'm in the laboratory, and I typically leave caffeine in a 'disable screensaver' state all day long, even when I'm at my desk working. So I'm missing a lot of potentially useful (though apparently not critical) notifications!