Bug 395995

Summary:	Notifications Messed up?
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	wolfyrion <kyriacos>
Component:	Notifications	Assignee:	Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde, kdelibs-bugs, nate, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.13.2
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Manjaro
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Better Screenshot for the notification bug using terminal command

Description wolfyrion 2018-06-29 09:52:09 UTC

Hi,
Plasma notifications seems to be displayed in different locations in a multiple monitor layout instead of my system tray.
For example Clementine Song Popups are displayed at my second monitor upper right , sometimes to the primary monitor around the middle.

Another example is that KDE Connect displays SMS multiple times in the upper right corner of the primary screen instad of system tray.

I have tried renaming the folder .kde4 but no luck

I have also tried to use the option -> custom position for the notification but it seems that is doing nothing.

I have also tried to create a new user but the same thing

Any ideas how to fix this or is a Plasma bug that will be fixed in a future release?

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2018-06-30 21:40:43 UTC

Can you paste a screenshot of this notification.

You can create notifications from the command line tool notify-send.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-07-02 00:56:01 UTC

Please get back to us with the information that David requested.

Comment 3 wolfyrion 2018-07-02 03:18:25 UTC

Two screenshots with 4 monitors and notifications messed

https://i.imgur.com/mYNIcIl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Lso3AAx.jpg

Comment 4 wolfyrion 2018-07-02 13:03:28 UTC

A very weird  thing happened...

After updating some files from Manjaro repo  I booted and notifications were working fine just like that. 
I thought the problem it got fixed, but after I rebooted for a second time the problem was back again.

is there any file that stores notification settings so I can delete it and restore notifications to defaults?

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2018-07-03 20:46:25 UTC

Thanks for the info. I'll let David or one of the other more experienced developers answer your question.

Comment 6 wolfyrion 2018-07-04 14:46:51 UTC

Created attachment 113766 [details]
Better Screenshot for the notification bug using terminal command

Better Screenshot for the notification bug using terminal command
notify-send 'Hello world!' 'This is an example notification.' --icon=dialog-information

Comment 7 Kai Uwe Broulik 2018-07-04 14:52:04 UTC

The popups shown in the last screenshot is not Plasma.

Please check what process is owning notifications:

dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus / \
org.freedesktop.DBus.GetConnectionUnixProcessID string:org.freedesktop.Notifications

Comment 8 wolfyrion 2018-07-04 14:56:59 UTC

[wolfyrion@WPC ~]$ dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus / \
> org.freedesktop.DBus.GetConnectionUnixProcessID string:org.freedesktop.Notifications
method return time=1530716152.757616 sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> destination=:1.798 serial=3 reply_serial=2
   uint32 9512

Comment 9 wolfyrion 2018-07-04 15:00:51 UTC

The other applications were

Clementine - The music player every time I change a song it popups notifications the name of the song

KDE Connect - it displays in KDE Notification whatever notification I received from my smartphone that includes - Emails , sms and other applications

Comment 10 Kai Uwe Broulik 2018-07-10 16:36:55 UTC

It would be helpful if you could get the name of the application, using pidof 9512

Comment 11 wolfyrion 2018-07-13 06:57:30 UTC

I think I have found the culprit.

I have totally removed XFCE and now notifications are working fine.

I dont know why XFCE is causing this issue, is a bit weird.
XFCE has a file xfce4-notifyd maybe that is the culprit.

I have rebooted my pc 2-3 times and notifications are fine , no problems at all.

Comment 12 Nate Graham 2018-07-13 12:52:34 UTC

Thanks for the info!