[SOLVED] Notifications broke.

[linmin]

Hi.
Would you please advice me how to fix such problem:



Some time ago there was similar problem, but after next update it was fixed. No xfce4-notifyd reinstalling, nor installing new or previous versions did have effect. May be the decision is obvious but I do not see it. Thank you in advance for help.

[trytip]

in xfce menu>settings>sessions and startup>session>clear saved sessions click it. rightclick on panel>panel>panel preferences>items>notification area>edit>clear known applications
logOFF/IN see if behavior is the same

[linmin]

in xfce menu>settings>sessions and startup>session>clear saved sessions click it. rightclick on panel>panel>panel preferences>items>notification area>edit>clear known applications logOFF/IN see if behavior is the same

Unfortunately, it is the same.

[trytip]

i can' read the russian what exactly is the problem? how is it broke?

[linmin]

i can' read the russian what exactly is the problem? how is it broke?

As you can see, the notifications can be placed in any corner of the Desktop, but in my case only in top right corner, no matter what position I choose "Top, bottom or left". Next, the appearance of the notification window: as you can see they are all different, botn in my case - simple green thin window and, of course, no matter do I change the theme or not - it is the same. The problem is in this behavior of the Notifications: no customizing, no changable position.

[trytip]

i am confused are these your screenshots from your computer? post a screenshot of the current issue on your display what do you have checked in settings>session and startup>application autostart?

do you have notify-osd installed? search synaptic for this and try to uninstall but beware of any other dependencies that will be removed
what is your output in terminal for ps -ef | grep notif

[linmin]

ps -ef | grep notif

Before

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lmmin@lmm ~ $ ps -ef | grep notif
root        36     2  0 06:43 ?        00:00:00 [fsnotify_mark]
lmmin    27035 27020  0 20:17 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto notif

After installation

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lmmin@lmm ~ $ ps -ef | grep notif
root        36     2  0 20:25 ?        00:00:00 [fsnotify_mark]
lmmin     3046  3030  0 20:55 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto notif

notify-osd

It was not installed but I did install it, logout, reboot... Nothing changed.
Once I found similar problem but with sound (the same problem with notification). User said the cause was in chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra packet (besides chromium was not installed in system at all). I couldn't check its deleting because it removes chromium-browser too. Well, I suppose there are two causes: or chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra packet, or firefox 57 (after upgrading from LM 18.2 to 18.3). Truly, I uninstall v.57 and changed to 52.2.5 ESR. Well, perhaps I should make backup browsers' settings and profiles and uninstall them one by one and see the results.

[trytip]

uninstall notify-osd i only asked if it was installed and you don't need it
check if xfce4-notifyd is installed it is not running

ps -ef | grep xfce4-notifyd <<< run this in terminal

[linmin]

ps -ef | grep xfce4-notifyd

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lmmin@lmm ~ $ ps -ef | grep xfce4-notifyd
lmmin     4765  4750  0 09:08 pts/2    00:00:00 grep --color=auto xfce4-notifyd

[trytip]

i don't see notifyd running
open task manager and type notifyd in search do you see xfce4-notifyd

[linmin]

xfce4-notifyd

There is no such process (in htop or system task manager).

[trytip]

maybe you can install it if it's available in synaptic?

[linmin]

maybe you can install it if it's available in synaptic?

Well, the problem was solved. The xfce4-notifyd packet was installed, but, unfortunately, I do not know how on earth, the notification-daemon packet was uninstalled or deleted... I installed it again and reboot PC. Now everything works as it should be.



Let me thank you very much for spending your time for solving the problem. I hope the case will help sombody in the future too.