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Sarah Szabo
Asked: 2017-07-20 08:34:17 +0800 CST

After Installing Unity I get Unity Style Notifications in KDE?

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I just installed the Ubuntu desktop environment (Unity), and now I'm getting Ubuntu style notifications in KDE. I don't really like this in Plasma, so how can I revert to the Kubuntu style notifications without uninstalling Unity?

Edit 0: This might have something to do with me switching my layout to lightdm, but I'm not certain.

Ubuntu Style Notifications

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  1. Best Answer

    This happens because you have multiple notification services installed simultaneously.

    Unfortunately, dbus doesn't seem to be able to intelligently select the appropriate notification service, so you will either need to disable one of the services (as detailed in this answer), or, if you want to keep both notify-osd and KDE's Plasma notification service installed and enabled, you will probably need to resort to a cumbersome workaround.

    N.B: If you opt for the workaround you will need to adapt the shell script in Step 3 to

    1. detect when either KDE or Unity is running
    2. run /usr/bin/plasma_waitforname org.freedesktop.Notifications when KDE is running
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