QubesOS
Dom0 notifications are missing
Qubes OS release
Qubes 4.2-rc4 (upgrading from 4.1), continues to be a problem after rc5
Brief summary
no notifications from dom0, notifications from other Qubes/VMs work fine
Steps to reproduce
upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2-rc4 and then do things that used to trigger a notification like copying to global clipboard or launching a Qube
Expected behavior
notification shows
Actual behavior
no notifications
If I try to force a notification with notify-send "test" I get error:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable
Fixed by creating: /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service
[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
Exec=/usr/lib64/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd
for more info see: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/no-notifications-in-qubes-os-4-2/22707/5
Also happens for a fresh install not only for an upgrade form 4.1 to 4.2.
I can confirm this for the final 4.2 release.
Also, no Qubes OS package requires dbus-x11, which contains dbus-launch and is therefore required to send notifications as root user, but may not be installed. That's another packaging issue imho.
Fresh install of Qubes OS 4.2.4 I have the same problem still. And same fix worked again.
[using i3wm]
i am surprised that T:bug was removed from that issue and that this hasn´t been fixed in the first place in the last year, the fix seems easy enough?
or were dom0 notifications disabled on purpose?
oh, and yes, I also switched to i3, and thinking about it, yes, after installing 4.2 notifications were working.
Just creating /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service as described did not fix the issue for me?
@h01ger:
i am surprised that T:bug was removed from that issue [...]
GitHub introduced a Type field for issues, so it was no longer necessary to have T: labels to represent issue types. Therefore, T: bug was removed from all issues and replaced with the issue type Bug. The replacement may not be obvious because GitHub shows the removal of T: bug on the issue's timeline without showing the addition of the type Bug on the timeline, but you can see it in the Type field on this issue, which is located in the side bar on the right if looking at GitHub on a desktop browser. This was purely an administrative change and has nothing to do with the content of this or any other issue. The same replacement was done with the T: enhancement and T: task labels and their respective issue types (see commit https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-doc/commit/e1bc45f146c571df58b338f0188c201fa64817f4).
It looks like dunst is one of recommended notification daemons for i3. Just installing the package seems to be enough to get notifications working, it includes relevant systemd/dbus configuration.
thank you! I can confirm that installing dunst in dom0 brings back notifications with i3!
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