[xmonad] Question about desktop notifications

[Adam Cooper]

Ah I think you're right. It's probably being sent by qutebrowser. I will
install dunst and see how that goes. Thanks! 
—AC

On Jul 11 09:00AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>Are you sure that's a standard notification? Some programs (notably
>browsers, but I've seen a few other programs do their own as well) do
>their own notifications especially if no notification service is
>running.
>
>If you want standard notifications back, dunst
>(https://dunst-project.org/) is a common alternative to the ones
>provided by full desktop managers.
>
>On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 8:54 AM Adam Cooper <adam at theadamcooper.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've recently started running xmonad on Arch Linux, with no desktop environment, and can't seem to figure out how the desktop notifications are being generated.
>> - Here's a link to a snapshot, to show what my notifications currently look like: https://imgur.com/a/dLMbj3w
>> - Running `notify-send 'Hello world!' 'This is an example notification.'` yields the error `GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files`.
>>
>> Can anyone shed some light on this mystery?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Adam Cooper
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