[xmonad] Question about desktop notifications

[Brandon Allbery]

The browser still might want to use its own; Chrome at least prefers
to be able to run Javascript in its notifications.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 9:21 AM Adam Cooper <adam at theadamcooper.com> wrote:
>
> 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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> >
> >
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