Bug 499038 - Un-dismissable Widget Removed Notification
Summary: Un-dismissable Widget Removed Notification
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Notifications (show other bugs)
Version: 6.2.90
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2025-01-23 06:14 UTC by thecaptain
Modified: 2025-01-27 22:53 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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2025-01-23 06:14 UTC, thecaptain
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Description thecaptain 2025-01-23 06:14:12 UTC
Created attachment 177608 [details]
Screenshot of stubborn notification

SUMMARY
After upgrading to the 6.3 beta, and reconfiguring my task bar, I got this notification after a while that I cannot figure out how to dismiss. Clicking, etc. doesn't work.

I've gotten a number of other notifications, but this one just doesn't want to go anywhere for some reason. See screenshot attached.

I'm not sure if it's related, but it's also strangely unstyled, and doesn't follow my theme (which, I have fully reset, including layout). All of the notifications are like that since the update. Not sure if this part of it is a bug, but I thought I'd note it.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Remove an "Icons-Only Task Manager" under some unknown conditions
2. This notification pops up, and clicking etc. can't get rid of it.

OBSERVED RESULT
It's stuck there

EXPECTED RESULT
It's dismissable.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Linux/KDE Plasma: Latest Arch Linux w/ kde-unstable repo
KDE Plasma Version: listed as 6.2.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I don't know what this particular notification is stuck, but I was messing around in the settings, so maybe there is some weird trigger.

Anyway, if this happens to someone else, you aren't alone haha.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-01-23 15:43:05 UTC
It looks like the Plasma notification server isn't running, so when Plasma sent a notification, it was displayed by another piece of software supplying a notification server — apparently one that mishandles notifications that don't time out, or that include buttons. This is a bug in that software, whatever it is (maybe dunst?). And the fact that a different notification server is running is a local configuration issue on your system.

See also https://community.kde.org/Distributions/Packaging_Recommendations#Packages_to_avoid
Comment 2 thecaptain 2025-01-27 22:53:29 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> It looks like the Plasma notification server isn't running, so when Plasma
> sent a notification, it was displayed by another piece of software supplying
> a notification server — apparently one that mishandles notifications that
> don't time out, or that include buttons. This is a bug in that software,
> whatever it is (maybe dunst?). And the fact that a different notification
> server is running is a local configuration issue on your system.
> 
> See also
> https://community.kde.org/Distributions/
> Packaging_Recommendations#Packages_to_avoid

Oh, yeah. I installed niri the other day, and I went and installed all of the optional dependencies along with it, which include both mako and xdg-desktop-portal-gnome, which are both in the list. (Although only xdg-desktop-portal-gtk is running, and I'd installed that earlier, hmm..)

Anyway, that's almost certainly the issue, thank you for the help! :)