Awesome can act like a notification daemon, but applications that use this depend on libnotify witch depends on x11-misc/notification-daemon or xfce-extra/xfce4-notifyd. The libnotify ebuild could have awesome as an alternative to these daemons. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -p libnotify Actual Results: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-common-2.28.0 [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXres-1.0.4 USE="-debug" [ebuild N ] gnome-base/orbit-2.14.18 USE="-doc" [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gconf-2.28.1 USE="ldap -debug -doc -policykit" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libwnck-2.30.2 USE="startup-notification -doc" [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libnotify-0.4.5 [ebuild N ] x11-misc/notification-daemon-0.4.0-r1 USE="-debug -gstreamer" Expected Results: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libnotify-0.4.5 emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.34-gentoo-r11 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r11-x86_64-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_Dual_CPU_T3200_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/pub/gentoo/gentoo-distfiles http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/gentoo/ http://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/pub/gentoo/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk iconv ipv6 jpeg lcms ldap mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python readline sdl session spell sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis x264 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
So if you type 'notify-send foobar' and only libnotify and awesome is installed, the message will popup?
(In reply to comment #1) > So if you type 'notify-send foobar' and only libnotify and awesome is > installed, the message will popup? > Exactly, awesome is listening on the dbus interface and shows the notifications.
Taking into account #323593 (and I've heard Enlightenment has its own daemon), maybe it's worth not to list daemons RDEPEND in ebuild, but elog something like "Notification will work only if your DE supports its, otherwise install..."?
(In reply to comment #3) > Taking into account #323593 (and I've heard Enlightenment has its own daemon), > maybe it's worth not to list daemons RDEPEND in ebuild, but elog something like > "Notification will work only if your DE supports its, otherwise install..."? > That would be nice.
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > So if you type 'notify-send foobar' and only libnotify and awesome is > > installed, the message will popup? > > > Exactly, awesome is listening on the dbus interface and shows the > notifications. > Confirmed.
fixed: + 03 Dec 2010; Alex Alexander <wired@gentoo.org> libnotify-0.4.5.ebuild: + added x11-wm/awesome to PDEPEND, bug #342259 thanks for reporting :)
