notification daemon?

[Member stevesr0]

I have a computer with 17.4 installed. One of the applications is a notification daemon (notify-osd). When I try to start it from the command line using “service notify-osd start”, I get the output “notify-osd: unrecognized service”.

There is no script file for this daemon in /etc/init.d/, which I assume is one reason it doesn’t start.

I would like to “fix” this.

Should I remove and reinstall the program (hoping that a script file will be generated and the program will work) or am I missing the problem and solution?

(I ran a simulated removal and apt offered to remove gufw-legacy as well as notify-osd and then install “notification-daemon (3.20.0-1+b1 Debian:9.12/oldstable [amd64])”. There are 11 different notification daemon applications in the repositories, including notify-osd and 3.20.0-1+b1. So I am not sure whether reinstall of the default version (notify-osd) or one of the other ones would be better.)

I have searched in the forum and on the web and haven’t seen a discussion of this issue.

Thanks for any advice, suggestions or (nice) comments.

stevesr0

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About notify-osd, I checked on antiX 19 (not on 17 version right now) and notify-osd has a launcher in /etc/xdg/autostart/ that should launch /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd but that file doesn’t exist.

Checking the installed files, there is a /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/notify-osd that does execute. There is a dbus error when I launch it from the terminal, but it does seem to work. I tested in a terminal emulator:
`notify-send Test “This is a test”
And a black box does appear at the top-right of the screen (everything is black though, no text visible)

I believed it was a problem of me not using a compositor (transparency stuff). I installed compton, ran it in a different terminal, and when executing the same notify-send command, this time it does seem to display the text properly.

I will test on antiX 17 later if you don’t have this same experience on your system. Check out if you have the same notify-osd file in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/notify-osd

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