[arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

[David Rosenstrauch]

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