Bug 312748

Summary: Notification popup appears twice on screen
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer>
Component: notificationsAssignee: Marco Martin <notmart>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal CC: aria, geekonek, plasma-bugs-null, radek.janostik, shadow.walker
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 4.9.97 RC2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Chakra   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: A notification popup appearing on screen twice (upper-left and lower-right corner)
Faulty plasma-desktop-appletsrc

Description Thomas Pfeiffer 2013-01-06 14:10:00 UTC
The notification poup always appears twice: Once near the panel where it's supposed to be, and another time on the top-left corner of the screen (see screenshot)
Comment 1 Thomas Pfeiffer 2013-01-06 14:14:19 UTC
Created attachment 76245 [details]
A notification popup appearing on screen twice (upper-left and lower-right corner)
Comment 2 geekonek 2013-02-11 11:17:27 UTC
for me 3 notification popups appear each time. One on top-left corner, and two on top-right corner (where the correct one should be on my desktop).
Comment 3 geekonek 2013-02-12 10:56:48 UTC
removing ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc fixed this for me. Seems stuff was duplicated but not visible on desktop. I had 2 invisible panels :)
Comment 4 Thomas Pfeiffer 2013-02-12 11:30:00 UTC
Created attachment 77214 [details]
Faulty plasma-desktop-appletsrc

I can confirm geekonek's observation: I had an additional invisible panel as well. I attach my plasma-desktop-appletsrc with the duplicate panels. After removing [Containments][3] and all applets in it, the problem was gone.
So the question is: Where did that come from?
What sadly cannot be seen in the file anymore because I had removed it earlier is that originally, [Containments][3]'s "activityId" contained the text of a notification instead of an Id. Maybe that can hint to the reason for the duplication?
Comment 5 ariasuni 2013-03-04 20:24:39 UTC
There still the «free» notification, and the other one hidden until we click on «Notification» in System Tray. Is it normal? Because it really annoy me to delete and delete and delete notifications. And if I don’t set any notification plasmoid, I haven’t notifications (is it also normal?!?)
Comment 6 ariasuni 2013-03-09 17:27:21 UTC
When notification applet is on system tray, there’s no icon for this applet (and it disappear sometimes) and notifications also appears on the screen, and not in the notification applet.

But when the notification applet is not in the system tray, it seems to works.
Comment 7 Martin Flöser 2013-06-06 11:47:17 UTC
*** Bug 319677 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 ariasuni 2013-06-06 11:54:05 UTC
It seems it's fixed since KDE 4.10.3 (at least for me).
Comment 9 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 19:37:30 UTC
Hello!

This bug report was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this bug is already resolved in Plasma 5.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this bug report. If the issue described  here is still present in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham