Ubuntu
plasma-desktop package

Notifications provided by xfce instead of plasma

Bug #1914770 reported by Alf HP Lund
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plasma-desktop (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I installed Ubuntu Studio 20.04 which is using XFCE.

I want to run Ubuntu Studio on Kubuntu, so did 'sudo install kubuntu-desktop'

After this, notifications in Plasma are marked "Notifications service not available" and a message given "Notifications are currently provided by Xfce Xfce Notify Daemon instead of Plasma".

I found https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/notifications-in-the-latest-kde5-plasma-ktown-packages-4175670133/ but can not get the fix provided there by davjohn to let me reliably switch between Xfce and Plasma and still have notifications work as I want in both environments.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: plasma-desktop 4:5.18.5-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-65.73-lowlatency 5.4.78
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-65-lowlatency x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Fri Feb 5 14:13:27 2021
SourcePackage: plasma-desktop
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Alf HP Lund (alf-c) wrote :
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Alf HP Lund (alf-c) wrote :

Additional info:

grep Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications /usr/share/dbus-1/services/*

returns:

/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.plasma.Notifications.service:Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.xfce4-notifyd.Notifications.service:Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications

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Alf HP Lund (alf-c) wrote :

Additional info: This bug seems to be the same: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381693 (although it says to affect the Archlinux Packages)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in plasma-desktop (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Peter Sevens (EF) (psevens-ef) wrote :

I have the same issue (using regular Ubuntu 20.04.3 w. KDE and XFCE installed).

Using a workaround stops xfce4-notifyd from starting here:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/dbus-1/services/
ln -s /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.plasma.Notifications.service \
  ~/.local/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.plasma.Notifications.service

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