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Volume change notification doesn't show.
When I go to Settings Manager -> Notifications, and click on Show Preview, no notification is shown.
Xfce 4.12
pavucontrol, xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin, xfce4-notifyd, libnotify - all installed.
xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin -> properties -> Show notifications when volume changes - it's switched on.
When i do
notify-send asdf
I see the notification.
Last edited by kujaw (2017-05-17 02:20:00)
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When I go to Settings Manager -> Notifications, and click on Show Preview, no notification is shown.
Is xfce4-notifyd running?
ps -ef | grep notif
How do you startxfce?
Do you use a display manager (which one) or do you use startx (what is the content of your .xinitrc file).
Also, what does your session dbus look like:
env | grep -i dbus
And log entries:
journalctl | grep notifyd
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Yes, xfce4-notifyd is running.
$ ps -ef | grep notify
kujaw 1869 649 0 11:44 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd
kujaw 2245 1899 0 11:45 pts/0 00:00:00 grep notify
I use lightdm and lightdm-gtk-greeter.
$ env | grep -i dbus
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
Log entries look suspicious to me:
$ journalctl | grep notifyd
May 13 10:38:01 kujawLap dbus-daemon[686]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' unit='xfce4-notifyd.service'
May 13 10:38:01 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[1754]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-KgeOOVN9pO: Connection refused
May 13 10:53:53 kujawLap dbus-daemon[686]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' unit='xfce4-notifyd.service'
May 13 10:53:53 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[2423]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-KgeOOVN9pO: Connection refused
May 13 10:56:44 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[2423]: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:10:17: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.
May 13 11:49:52 kujawLap dbus-daemon[686]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' unit='xfce4-notifyd.service'
May 13 11:49:52 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[3458]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-KgeOOVN9pO: Connection refused
May 13 11:50:39 kujawLap dbus-daemon[676]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' unit='xfce4-notifyd.service'
May 13 11:50:39 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[777]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-mEBJpjSzZJ: Connection refused
May 13 12:29:36 kujawLap dbus-daemon[676]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' unit='xfce4-notifyd.service'
May 13 12:29:36 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[1769]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-mEBJpjSzZJ: Connection refused
May 13 15:07:46 kujawLap dbus-daemon[676]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' unit='xfce4-notifyd.service'
May 13 15:07:46 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[2573]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-mEBJpjSzZJ: Connection refused
May 13 16:21:34 kujawLap dbus-daemon[676]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' unit='xfce4-notifyd.service'
May 13 16:21:34 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[5743]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-mEBJpjSzZJ: Connection refused
May 13 16:58:19 kujawLap dbus-daemon[676]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' unit='xfce4-notifyd.service'
May 13 16:58:19 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[6877]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-mEBJpjSzZJ: Connection refused
May 13 17:58:50 kujawLap dbus-daemon[676]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' unit='xfce4-notifyd.service'
May 13 17:58:50 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[7779]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-mEBJpjSzZJ: Connection refused
May 14 15:23:44 kujawLap dbus-daemon[676]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' unit='xfce4-notifyd.service'
May 14 15:23:44 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[13696]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-mEBJpjSzZJ: Connection refused
May 14 17:43:53 kujawLap dbus-daemon[676]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' unit='xfce4-notifyd.service'
May 14 18:54:58 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[14405]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-mEBJpjSzZJ: Connection refused
May 14 19:14:09 kujawLap dbus-daemon[676]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' unit='xfce4-notifyd.service'
May 14 19:14:09 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[15043]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-mEBJpjSzZJ: Connection refused
May 14 19:59:02 kujawLap dbus-daemon[676]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' unit='xfce4-notifyd.service'
May 14 19:59:02 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[16378]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-mEBJpjSzZJ: Connection refused
May 14 20:00:41 kujawLap sudo[16476]: kujaw : TTY=pts/2 ; PWD=/home/kujaw ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/pacman -R -s xfce4-notifyd
May 15 11:39:02 kujawLap sudo[1410]: kujaw : TTY=pts/2 ; PWD=/home/kujaw ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/pacman -S -y xfce4-notifyd libnotify xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin
May 15 11:39:51 kujawLap dbus-daemon[677]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' unit='xfce4-notifyd.service'
May 15 11:39:51 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[757]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-Ag46XBI72Q: Connection refused
May 15 11:44:08 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[757]: xfce4-notifyd: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.
May 15 11:44:08 kujawLap systemd[649]: xfce4-notifyd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
May 15 11:44:08 kujawLap systemd[649]: xfce4-notifyd.service: Unit entered failed state.
May 15 11:44:08 kujawLap systemd[649]: xfce4-notifyd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
May 15 11:44:29 kujawLap dbus-daemon[677]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' unit='xfce4-notifyd.service'
May 15 11:44:29 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[1869]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-q5fKv9NpZL: Connection refused
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I get those same error messages when I install and enable lightdm. However, the notifications (and notification preview) still work for me.
Can you post back the results of:
xfconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -lv
...and:
fgrep -ri startxfce4 ~/.*
And can you try the following:
1. Log out and log in to a virtual console and clear your sessions cache by deleting the contents of the ~/.cache/sessions folder. Log back in via lightdm and test.
2. Disable lightdm, log in via console and "startxfce4". See if it works without lightdm.
Edit: And can you also post back the results of :
systemctl --user status xfce4-notifyd.service
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Ok, I think I have an answer to volume notifications.
Some time ago I mapped those commands to my volume keys:
sh -c "pactl set-sink-mute 0 false ; pactl set-sink-volume 0 -5%"
sh -c "pactl set-sink-mute 0 false ; pactl set-sink-volume 0 +5%"
I remember that I had problems with turning sound up and down before and made workaround by mapping above commands. I removed them now and sound notifications work perfectly.
But still, notifications preview doesn't work & there are still some errors showing in journalctl:
$ journalctl | grep notifyd
May 15 16:49:38 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[4099]: xfce4-notifyd: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.
May 15 16:49:38 kujawLap systemd[649]: xfce4-notifyd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
May 15 16:49:38 kujawLap systemd[649]: xfce4-notifyd.service: Unit entered failed state.
May 15 16:49:38 kujawLap systemd[649]: xfce4-notifyd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
May 15 16:50:19 kujawLap dbus-daemon[649]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' unit='xfce4-notifyd.service'
May 15 16:50:19 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[741]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-LGwWNh8QwJ: Connection refused
I will check in a minute those further terminal commands.
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$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -lv
/applications/known_applications <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/applications/muted_applications <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/do-fadeout true
/log-level 0
/log-level-apps 0
/notify-location 2
/primary-monitor 0
/theme Default
$ fgrep -ri startxfce4 ~/.*
/home/kujaw/./.bash_history:fgrep -ri startxfce4 ~/.*
/home/kujaw/./.bash_history:fgrep -ri startxfce4 ~/.*
/home/kujaw/./.bash_history:startxfce4
/home/kujaw/./.bash_history:startxfce4
/home/kujaw/./.bash_history:startxfce4
/home/kujaw/./.cache/xfce4/clipman/textsrc:texts=fconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -lv;xfconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -lv;$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -lv\n/applications/known_applications <<UNSUPPORTED>>\n/applications/muted_applications <<UNSUPPORTED>>\n/do-fadeout true\n/log-level 0\n/log-level-apps 0\n/notify-location 2\n/primary-monitor 0\n/theme Default\n;fgrep -ri startxfce4 ~/.*;
/home/kujaw/../kujaw/.bash_history:fgrep -ri startxfce4 ~/.*
/home/kujaw/../kujaw/.bash_history:fgrep -ri startxfce4 ~/.*
/home/kujaw/../kujaw/.bash_history:startxfce4
/home/kujaw/../kujaw/.bash_history:startxfce4
/home/kujaw/../kujaw/.bash_history:startxfce4
/home/kujaw/../kujaw/.cache/xfce4/clipman/textsrc:texts=fconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -lv;xfconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -lv;$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -lv\n/applications/known_applications <<UNSUPPORTED>>\n/applications/muted_applications <<UNSUPPORTED>>\n/do-fadeout true\n/log-level 0\n/log-level-apps 0\n/notify-location 2\n/primary-monitor 0\n/theme Default\n;fgrep -ri startxfce4 ~/.*;systemctl --user status xfce4-notifyd.service;$ systemctl --user status xfce4-notifyd.service\n● xfce4-notifyd.service - XFCE notifications service\n Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xfce4-notifyd.service\;\sstatic\;\svendor p\n Active: active (running) since Mon 2017-05-15 20:31:02 CEST\;\s5min ago\n Main PID: 750 (xfce4-notifyd)\n CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/xfce4-notifyd.service\n └─750 /usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd\n\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap systemd[644]: Starting XFCE notifications service...\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[750]: Couldn't connect to accessibility b\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap systemd[644]: Started XFCE notifications service.\nlines 1-10/10 (END)...skipping...\n● xfce4-notifyd.service - XFCE notifications service\n Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xfce4-notifyd.service\;\sstatic\;\svendor preset: enabled)\n Active: active (running) since Mon 2017-05-15 20:31:02 CEST\;\s5min ago\n Main PID: 750 (xfce4-notifyd)\n CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/xfce4-notifyd.service\n └─750 /usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd\n\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap systemd[644]: Starting XFCE notifications service...\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[750]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-3dMgmxrU2M: Connection refused\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap systemd[644]: Started XFCE notifications service.\n;systemctl --user status xfce4-notifyd.service\n● xfce4-notifyd.service - XFCE notifications service\n Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xfce4-notifyd.service\;\sstatic\;\svendor preset: enabled)\n Active: active (running) since Mon 2017-05-15 20:31:02 CEST\;\s5min ago\n Main PID: 750 (xfce4-notifyd)\n CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/xfce4-notifyd.service\n └─750 /usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd\n\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap systemd[644]: Starting XFCE notifications service...\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[750]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-3dMgmxrU2M: Connection refused\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap systemd[644]: Started XFCE notifications service.\n;
grep: /home/kujaw/../lost+found: Permission denied
/home/kujaw/.bash_history:fgrep -ri startxfce4 ~/.*
/home/kujaw/.bash_history:fgrep -ri startxfce4 ~/.*
/home/kujaw/.bash_history:startxfce4
/home/kujaw/.bash_history:startxfce4
/home/kujaw/.bash_history:startxfce4
/home/kujaw/.cache/xfce4/clipman/textsrc:texts=fconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -lv;xfconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -lv;$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -lv\n/applications/known_applications <<UNSUPPORTED>>\n/applications/muted_applications <<UNSUPPORTED>>\n/do-fadeout true\n/log-level 0\n/log-level-apps 0\n/notify-location 2\n/primary-monitor 0\n/theme Default\n;fgrep -ri startxfce4 ~/.*;systemctl --user status xfce4-notifyd.service;$ systemctl --user status xfce4-notifyd.service\n● xfce4-notifyd.service - XFCE notifications service\n Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xfce4-notifyd.service\;\sstatic\;\svendor p\n Active: active (running) since Mon 2017-05-15 20:31:02 CEST\;\s5min ago\n Main PID: 750 (xfce4-notifyd)\n CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/xfce4-notifyd.service\n └─750 /usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd\n\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap systemd[644]: Starting XFCE notifications service...\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[750]: Couldn't connect to accessibility b\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap systemd[644]: Started XFCE notifications service.\nlines 1-10/10 (END)...skipping...\n● xfce4-notifyd.service - XFCE notifications service\n Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xfce4-notifyd.service\;\sstatic\;\svendor preset: enabled)\n Active: active (running) since Mon 2017-05-15 20:31:02 CEST\;\s5min ago\n Main PID: 750 (xfce4-notifyd)\n CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/xfce4-notifyd.service\n └─750 /usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd\n\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap systemd[644]: Starting XFCE notifications service...\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[750]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-3dMgmxrU2M: Connection refused\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap systemd[644]: Started XFCE notifications service.\n;systemctl --user status xfce4-notifyd.service\n● xfce4-notifyd.service - XFCE notifications service\n Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xfce4-notifyd.service\;\sstatic\;\svendor preset: enabled)\n Active: active (running) since Mon 2017-05-15 20:31:02 CEST\;\s5min ago\n Main PID: 750 (xfce4-notifyd)\n CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/xfce4-notifyd.service\n └─750 /usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd\n\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap systemd[644]: Starting XFCE notifications service...\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[750]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-3dMgmxrU2M: Connection refused\nMay 15 20:31:02 kujawLap systemd[644]: Started XFCE notifications service.\n;
$ systemctl --user status xfce4-notifyd.service
● xfce4-notifyd.service - XFCE notifications service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/xfce4-notifyd.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2017-05-15 20:31:02 CEST; 5min ago
Main PID: 750 (xfce4-notifyd)
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/xfce4-notifyd.service
└─750 /usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd
May 15 20:31:02 kujawLap systemd[644]: Starting XFCE notifications service...
May 15 20:31:02 kujawLap xfce4-notifyd[750]: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-3dMgmxrU2M: Connection refused
May 15 20:31:02 kujawLap systemd[644]: Started XFCE notifications service.
I did those two points that you advised, the notifications preview doesn't work in any of them.
However, as my main issue was volume notification, which currently works, I think this topic can be marked as solved. If you would like to troubleshoot it more, to find what's happening, why the notifications preview doesn't work I'm happy to cooperate.
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Ok.
I'm still interested in why the preview doesn't work. The accessibility bus message seems to be related to lightdm and shouldn't have an effect. Everything else looks okay.
Can you post back a list of your allowed and blocked apps?
xfconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -p /applications/known_applications
xfconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -p /applications/muted_applications
Lets make sure that xfce4-notifyd-settings isn't being muted.
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$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -p /applications/known_applications
Value is an array with 13 items:
Electron
MEGAsync
nm-applet
notify-send
Pale Moon
pnmixer
qBittorrent
Thunar
thunar-volman
Xfce volume control
Xfce4-notifyd settings
xfce4-power-manager
xfce4-settings-helper
$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-notifyd -p /applications/muted_applications
Value is an array with 2 items:
xfce4-power-manager
Xfce4-notifyd settings
It is being muted. I've just unmuted both xfce4-notifyd settings & xfce4-power-manager and I can see preview notification.
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I forgot about the most imporant thing... Thank you a lot!
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