[arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 06/23/2017 09:27 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> On 06/23/2017 03:53 AM, Vladimir Lomov via arch-general wrote:
>> ** David Rosenstrauch [2017-06-22 21:52:28 -0400]:
>>> Useful data point - thanks.  I am using a login manager (lightdm), which
>>> launches startxfce4.  Perhaps there's something got messed up with that
>>> combination.
>>
>> Try sddm.
> 
> Perhaps.  To be honest, I don't think lightdm is responsible for the 
> issue either.  (It hasn't been updated since March.)  There's obviously 
> *something* that changed recently that's causing this behavior.  I'm not 
> sure what - or how to fix.  But there's some evidence this might get 
> fixed on the XFCE side soon.

FYI, I just tested under sddm and I still see the same issue.  For 
whatever reason, xfce4-notifyd does not get started in response to 
attempts to launch service 'org.freedesktop.Notifications':

Jun 23 16:55:27 darosedm dbus-daemon[723]: Activating service 
name='org.freedesktop.Notifications'
Jun 23 16:56:27 darosedm plasma_waitforname[1988]: 
org.kde.knotifications: WaitForName: Service was not registered within 
timeout
Jun 23 16:56:27 darosedm dbus-daemon[723]: Activated service 
'org.freedesktop.Notifications' failed: Process 
org.freedesktop.Notifications exited with status 1

DR