[arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 06/26/2017 01:32 PM, Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
> On 06/26/2017 06:30 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>> Any idea how to resolve the conflict between these 2 notification
>> services?  (Without being forced to remove half of KDE?)
>>
>> For example, dbus seems to be selecting the kde plasma notification
>> service to respond to the org.freedesktop.Notifications service
>> messages, rather than the XFCE one.  Would you know if there's a way to
>> disable the plasma service, or tell dbus that the xfce one should have a
>> higher priority?
>>
> 	I'm not sure, but it looks like dbus is selecting the first one in
> alphabetic order (here it chooses
> org.freedesktop.mate.Notifications.service over
> org.kde.plasma.Notifications.service). I don't know if there is a way to
> specify a per-user override, but I would guess that symlinking
> /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.xfce4-notifyd.Notifications.service
> to /usr/share/dbus-1/services/00.org.freedesktop.Notifications.service
> (or some similar name that comes before kde) has a fair chance of
> solving the issue for you...
> 
> 		Jerome

Thanks much for the assistance.

I tried the symlink approach, but it didn't seem to work.

I opened up a bug at KDE about this, if anyone's interested. 
(https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381693)  Perhaps they'll have some 
suggestions for workarounds (or a fix).

Thanks,

DR