Debian Bug report logs - #544750
notify-osd: Unable to lower notification's expiry time than ten seconds

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bin Joo <binzter@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: notify-osd: Unable to lower notification's expiry time than ten seconds

Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:19:09 +0800

Package: notify-osd
Version: 0.9.18-1
Severity: normal

I want to create customised notifications to be shown by "notify-osd", using, for example, Python's "pynotify" module or the "notify-send" program.
I've noticed that the default expiration time of "notify-osd" is 10 seconds.
Wanting notifications that last shorter, I tried to set lower expire-times and urgency-levels. But whatever expire-times (100ms, 1sec, 5sec) or urgency-levels (low, normal) I specify are all ignored, and the notification goes on notifyin' for 10 seconds.


example usages that don't work as expected:
--- with "pynotify":
n = pynotify.Notification("This is a short notice")
n.set_urgency(pynotify.URGENCY_LOW)
n.set_timeout(1000)
n.show()

--- with "notify-send":
# notify-send -u low -t 1000 "This is a short notice"


used software and versions:
- notify-osd 0.9.18-1
- libnotify1 0.4.5-1
- libnotify-bin 0.4.5-1 (notify-send)
- python-notify 0.1.1-2+b1 (pynotify)
- openbox 3.4.7.2-5 (window manager)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages notify-osd depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.26.0-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                     1.8.8-2    The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.82-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.26.2-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.20.4-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.16.5-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.24.5-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpixman-1-0                 0.14.0-1   pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii  libwnck22                     2.26.1-1   Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2.2-1  X11 client-side library

notify-osd recommends no packages.

notify-osd suggests no packages.

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Message #10 received at 544750@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: bin <binzter@gmail.com>

To: 544750@bugs.debian.org

Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 02:44:37 +0800

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Note: This bug has been pronounced invalid over at launchpad, from which
this bug report is linked.  The report is invalid because it misunderstood
the design of "notify-osd".

Please see for more information:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+bug/423314

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Message #15 received at 544750-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>

To: 544750-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#544750:

Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 21:41:41 +0100

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On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 02:44:37AM +0800, bin wrote:
> Note: This bug has been pronounced invalid over at launchpad, from which
> this bug report is linked.  The report is invalid because it misunderstood
> the design of "notify-osd".
> 
> Please see for more information:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+bug/423314
Closing.
-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.

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