Bug#814949: notification-daemon: /etc/xdg/autostart file only starts for "GNOME-Flashback"

[Alberts Muktupāvels]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Kevin McCarthy <kevin at 8t8.us> wrote:

> Package: notification-daemon
> Version: 3.18.1-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I use the openbox window manager.  In jessie, notifications from
> applications using libnotify would display, but I recently updated to
> stretch and discovered the notifications were no longer displaying.
>
> After some poking around, I found it was because there is a
> "OnlyShowIn=GNOME-Flashback" line in
> /etc/xdg/autostart/notification-daemon-autostart.desktop, which causes
> openbox not to start the daemon.
>

Openbox is window manager, why should it start something?

It seems like the notifications would be useful for all desktop
> environments.  Would it be unreasonable to remove the "OnlyShowIn"
> line from the autostart file, or would this cause problems in some
> desktops?
>

GNOME does not use notification-daemon so starting it in all desktop
environments is not solution. Also I plan to stop using notification-daemon
for GNOME-Flashback, so autostart file will be removed.

If your desktop environment uses notification-daemon then it must install
autostart file for it.

-- 
Alberts Muktupāvels
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