On 06/21/2017 03:07 PM, Bjoern Franke wrote:
Am 21.06.2017 um 14:17 schrieb David Barri via arch-general:
Broke for me recently too. I had to add this to my .xinitrc:
systemctl --user start xfce4-notifyd.service
Which DE are you using? With XFCE, it's autostarted here, not need for systemctl --user.
Regards Bjoern
I (the original reporter) am running XFCE. I've done a bit of research on the issue. Seems like what's happening is: a) Apparently xfce4-notifyd intentionally (!) shuts itself down after 10 mins of inactivity (see https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12754). However, it's had this behavior for quite some time (since v0.3.0 - we're now at 0.3.6), so I don't think this is the source of the issue. b) It looks like what changed recently is that for some reason dbus is no longer able to automatically restart xfce4-notifyd when a notification happens. See what I get when I issue "notify-send 'test'": Jun 21 15:08:16 darosedm dbus-daemon[628]: Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' Jun 21 15:09:16 darosedm plasma_waitforname[7097]: org.kde.knotifications: WaitForName: Service was not registered within timeout Jun 21 15:09:16 darosedm dbus-daemon[628]: Activated service 'org.freedesktop.Notifications' failed: Process org.freedesktop.Notifications exited with status 1 I haven't quite pinned down what's causing the restart to fail yet. If anyone has any relevant info, please do share. Thanks, DR