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Hanynowsky
Asked: 2012-02-19 08:51:44 +0800 CST

Accidentally replaced notify-osd with xfce-notifyd, how do I fix it?

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The day before yesterday, after an update, Gwibber Notifications got screwed a bit (Once I log in, they appear in bulk, for 2 seconds only while before they used appear one by one and each notification lasted 5 seconds). Anyway, After the same update, Top Panel Notification dialogs changed their background color from Gray (Ambiance default color) to Whitey very light grey. I can't spot where in Compiz Settings I can tweak this. I only can set the transparency values for items like Nautilus, Dialogs, Menus.... But no background stuff.).

Someone has a clue ? How can I set the Top Panel notifiations background color back to Default? First I thought it was only Gwibber, but it applies to any app (Firefox, Banshee....Etc).

Thanks in advance. Screenshot 1

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notify-osd

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I have recently fall into this problem. The other answer didn't help me much. But thanks to the answerer above, I found the package name for that quickly.

    I did this to solve my problem:

    1. Opening a terminal and executing this command:

      gksu gedit /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.xfce4-notifyd.Notifications.service

    2. Then replace the line:

      Exec=/usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd

      with this one:

      Exec=/usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd

      Or, if on Ubuntu 16.04:

      Exec=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/notify-osd

    3. Save and exit.

    Problem solved.

    As an extra benefit, I get the nice notify-osd in XFCE too.

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  2. Ok Found the problem and fixed it.

    After installing Xubuntu-desktop along for some testing I did, xfce-notifyd (Xfce notification daemon) replaced notify-osd (Gnome Notify Daemon) and probably removed the ubuntu-desktop metapackage too.

    Uninstalling the package xfce-notifyd , resolved the issue. Now notifications are back to normal.

    Thanks for your interest.

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  3. I've found a solution to this that doesn't involve editing any files and won't be overwritten by a package upgrade. Just use the following two commands in a shell:

    sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/dbus-1/services
sudo cp /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service /usr/local/share/dbus-1/services
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  4. This happened to me as well after installing XFCE. It's an old question, but accepted answer did not work for me on Ubuntu 16.04. To solve it, I just needed to remove the package xfce4-notifyd.

    sudo apt-get remove xfce4-notifyd

    Please note this will force XFCE environment to use Ubuntu's notify-osd library.

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