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> ### Issue Description > > **Problem:** Dunst notifications stop showing after turning an external HDMI display off and back on. > > **Environment:** > > * `$ dunst --version`...

I assumed at first that it was a problem with the idle managment, but now it seems more of a communication problem with the wayland protocols? I am not an...

afaik the protocol used to draw is the layer shell ([zwlr_layer_shell_v1](https://wayland.app/protocols/wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1#zwlr_layer_shell_v1)) and for idle managment is [ext_idle_notifier_v1](https://wayland.app/protocols/ext-idle-notify-v1#ext_idle_notifier_v1) both supported by sway 1.9+

Maybe this is a bug in sway after all? Are older version of sway working fine with dunst or are there similar issues? A wild guess would be that some...

> https://github.com/emersion/mako/issues/189 - also looks similar I will try looking in the solution of this issue

> Any updates? Sorry at the moment I dont have time to do this. Especially since this issue seems not only related to dunst but to the whole wayland stack....

thanks for the heads up. I will improve the documentation. the `transparency` option is kinda discouraged (as I also said in #1252) since you can set the individual colors' alpha...

the problem is that the behavior on wayland and xorg would then be different if we keep using the `transparency` settings. despite it's name what it does is set the...

I was thinking that maybe adding a second option wouldn't be too problematic after all. something like default_alpha. the color parsing should be modified a bit though

I don't know what could be the cause of this. To begin with we don't render using gpu but only through cairo. Maybe it is a bug in the vulkan...