Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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After upgrade from linux mint 20.2 to 20.3 notification pop ups are as screenshot. Does anyone knows hot to fix this problem?

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Re: Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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Finally,

I manage to fix the issue by reinstalling cinnamon

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sudo apt-get install --reinstall cinnamon
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Re: Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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I have the same problem. Reinstalling/restarting Cinnamon didn't help :(
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Re: Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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I have the same problem and that also didn`t help... :(
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Re: Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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I'm having the same issue. I guess it's important to note that I originally had a 19, then upgraded all the way through 20.x with 20.3 being the latest version.
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Re: Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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The theming of the notification shows that it's running as admin.
I think that's the problem but I'm not sure how to fix it.
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Re: Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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Still no solution to the problem? It's quite annoying because it prevents receiving files over BT, because transfers need to be confirmed on the notifications popup and these are not showing any buttons (yes, one could use bt-obex, but sometimes I just want the convenience of the GUI).
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Re: Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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In a terminal run

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gdbus call --session --dest org.freedesktop.DBus --object-path / --method org.freedesktop.DBus.GetConnectionUnixProcessID org.freedesktop.Notifications
The output will include a process ID. Run

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ps -A | grep <id>
Report the output. I'm expecting something other than cinnamon...

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steve@steve-Inspiron-5580:~$ gdbus call --session --dest org.freedesktop.DBus --object-path / --method org.freedesktop.DBus.GetConnectionUnixProcessID org.freedesktop.Notifications
(uint32 40996,)

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steve@steve-Inspiron-5580:~$ ps -A | grep 40996
  40996 ?        00:11:23 cinnamon
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Re: Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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Hello smurphos,

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, the output is cinnamon.
Have a look at the attached picture.
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Re: Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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Not sure what is going on here then - this was bug reported just after the upgrade path was released but it turned out that for some reason the reporter had the XFCE notification daemon running and removing it solved the issue.

Raise a new bug report - https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/new
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Re: Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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I'm pretty sure it's not a bug, but rather a problem in the configuration.
I have another computer that also runs Mint 20.3, and I don't have that problem there. Though on this computer, I've installed originally 20.2, and then upgraded to 20.3.
Could it be that something (widget, theme, app, something else) is messing up the notifications?
Would be interesting to hear from the other guys who also have this problem, what they are running, what upgrades they did, could possibly narrow down what is causing this.
Anything else we can try to figure this one out? I'm not that familiar with cinnamon configuration, I like that it just works, and that I don't have to fiddle around with it too much.
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Re: Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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OK - to troubleshoot further, first thing I'd try is a temporary new user account. Does this issue occur there. If not then it's something in your personal config causing the issue. If it does occur in a new user account then it's a more general problem and we know not to bother hunting around the contents of your 'home' for the issue.
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Re: Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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Ok, so I've added a new user, and the problem is there as well.
Where should I look next?
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Re: Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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OK - lets try to reinstall some bits of cinnamon to do with notifications

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apt install --reinstall cinnamon cinnamon-common gir1.2-notify-0.7
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Re: Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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Ok, done that, restarted cinnamon, restarted X, but no change...

EDIT:
Maybe do an apt-get purge of these packages and then install them from scratch?
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Re: Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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Try a full reboot first.

Lets see if we can find the install log from your update to 20.3 to see if there were any errors..

First open Update manager > View > History of updates. Sort by update and then scroll down to cinnamon - look for the date you upgraded from 5.0.7+uma to 5.2.7+una

So on my system it was 7th Jan 2022.

So now I'm going to examine the dpkg.log and apt logs for this date - because we are now in March these logs will have been compressed by logrotate - January's logs will be post pended with .2.gz (.1.gz will be Februaries logs)

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zcat /var/log/apt/term.log.2.gz
Scroll to the entry corresponding with your update date and time and share the output - lets see if there were any errors.
Also share the output of this (replacing the date with your upgrade date.

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zcat /var/log/dpkg.log.2.gz | grep "2022-01-07"
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Re: Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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OK, the full reboot also didn't bring anything.
I'll have a look at the update logs now, and post the findings here...

Unfortunately nothing much in the logs:
https://www.toptal.com/developers/haste ... urerun.sql
This is just an excerpt concerning the update date. Let me know if the whole log would be helpful
Update reference in the Update manager:
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Re: Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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Bump...
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Re: [SOLVED] Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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This fixed it:
sudo apt remove dunst
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Re: [SOLVED] Notification window / theme problem after upgrade to 20.3

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invex wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 12:14 pm This fixed it:
sudo apt remove dunst
Lol - how did that get installed? - it's the i3 notification daemon.
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