[arch-general] Gnome3: gnome-shell and notifications, broken?

[Casey Peter]

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:

> I've just changed my desktop back to Gnome3.  I suspect that
> notifications are somewhat broken on my system, but I can't find any
> information to confirm it.
>
> When I run 'notify-send "Test notifications"' the following happens:
>
> 1. a small 'i' in a blue circle appears at the bottom of the screen
>    - it disappears when I click on it, or after a short while
>
> 2. an 'i' in a blue circle also appears in the bottom bar
>    - left clicking on the icon brings up a smaller 'i' icon, the
>      larger icon remains
>    - right clicking the icon brings up a menu offering 'open' and
>      'remove', they both behave exactly the same: they remove the
>      notification icon
>
> What I find surprising here is that
>
> 1. I never get to see the text, no matter what I do
> 2. 'open' doesn't open but removes
>
> Is this weird behaviour unique to my system, or is it just an area in
> serious need of improvement in Gnome3?
>

notify is working just fine over here with latest updates applied (non
testing) as of 1/6/2013.
C