Bug#1151954: notification-daemon: register itself as a D-Bus service for on-demand activation

CarlesPina carles at pina.cat
Sun Oct 25 13:32:23 GMT 2026


Hi Simon,

On 25 Oct 2026 at 11:47:16, Simon McVittie wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Oct 2026 at 08:02:50 +0000, CarlesPina wrote:
> > carles at debian:~$ notify-send "test"
> > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files
> 
> This is intentional: there used to be a D-Bus .service file for

[...]
[long, interesting and well explained historical problems and solutions]

>     smcv

I can only say: thanks very much for taking the time writing it! Super
useful for me and I'm sure that for other people that will land here /
possible maintainers of different environments.

Best regards,

-- 
Carles Pina i Estany
https://carles.pina.cat | carles at pina.cat | cpina at debian.org
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