[arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

[Mauro Santos]

On 21-06-2017 20:16, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> 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.
> 

It's working fine here.

I don't use a login manager, I login from a tty and I haven't changed
any configuration in a long while. I also don't do anything special to
launch xfce or anything else.

my .xinitrc has:

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
  for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
    [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
  done
  unset f
fi
exec startxfce4

and that's all.

-- 
Mauro Santos