Bug 11227

Summary:	desktop notification not working in LXDE : notification-daemon not configured properly in LXDE autostart file
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	peter griffin <softity>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ennael1, fundawang, lists.jjorge, napcok, oliver.bgr
Version:	3	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	lxde-common-0.5.5-13.mga3.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	Proposed patch for spec file

Description peter griffin 2013-09-14 05:22:13 CEST

Description of problem:

In Mageia3 i586 the notify-send command does not output any popup notification (used for example to warn for a low laptop battery) in a LXDE desktop install.

notify-send is installed but the notification-daemon is not running. but I could fix this by altering the LXDE autostart file (/etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart), it had an error in the notification daemon path : the wrong one "@/usr/lib/notification-daemon" and the working one is "@/usr/libexec/notification-daemon".

The notification daemon binary is under /usr/libexec, im not sure if it is the normal path or it should be relocated to /usr/lib and then the bug will be in the notification daemon install package.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible: Install LXDE desktop session


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install LXDE desktop
2. type the following command: notify-send "test" 
3. open the file as root  /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
4. edit the line "@/usr/lib/notification-daemon" and change it to "@/usr/libexec/notification-daemon"
5. logout
6. log in again and then notify-send is working

Hope this helps

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

David Walser 2013-09-14 05:25:30 CEST

Component: Security => RPM Packages
QA Contact: security => (none)

Comment 1 Daniel Napora 2013-12-11 17:17:13 CET

Created attachment 4603 [details]
Proposed patch for spec file

This bug still exist also in Cauldron. Added proposed patch to spec file.

CC: (none) => napcok

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2013-12-22 13:54:32 CET

Hi, thanks for reporting this bug.
As there is no maintainer for this package I added the committers in CC.

(Please set the status to 'assigned' if you are working on it)

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
CC: (none) => ennael1, fundawang, lists.jjorge, oliver.bgr

Comment 3 Daniel Napora 2013-12-22 17:21:26 CET

This bug is fixed in Cauldron, still exist in MGA3.
I'm apprentice in progress, without svn commit rights, so I can't fix this by myself.

Comment 4 Manuel Hiebel 2013-12-22 17:29:51 CET

ah, maybe you can ask your mentor for mga3 ?

Comment 5 Daniel Napora 2013-12-22 17:44:15 CET

Sure, I will do that.

Comment 6 Marja Van Waes 2015-03-31 16:04:14 CEST

Mageia 3 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status 4 months ago.
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/11/26/lets-say-goodbye-to-mageia-3/ 

Mageia 3 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia
please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia
and reopen this bug.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD