Ubuntu's NotifyOSD in Fedora

[Fuzzie]

Sure you can build it from source and make all the changes yourself but I prefer to do it using RPMs so that I can easily remove all the junk i installed.



Installation

Create a file called fuzzie.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and add:

[fuzzie]
name=Fuzzie Repository for Fedora $releasever
baseurl=http://xrylite.uni.cc/fedora/releases/$releasever/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://xrylite.uni.cc/fedora/RPM-GPG-KEY-fuzzie.gpg

Install:

yum install notify-osd

...or rebuild if not x86_64 or i586

Install build requisites:

yum install rpm-build dbus-glib-devel gtk2-devel GConf2-devel libnotify-devel libwnck-devel intltool

Download SRPM and rebuild:

wget --no-cache http://xrylite.uni.cc/fedora/notify-osd-0.9.14.1-1.src.rpm
rpmbuild --rebuild notify-osd-0.9.14.1-1.src.rpm

EDIT: Added --no-cache flag as it downloads the older version for some reason

Install:

rpm -ivh ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/$(uname -m)/notify-osd-0.9.14.1-1.$(uname -m).rpm

Finishing up

Now all you need to do is activate it.

Setting up:

Edit /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service
and change the third line to: Exec=/usr/libexec/notify-osd

Note:It is wise to do a backup first

Now all you need to do is restart X and you will have NotifyOSD on your system.

Testing:

notify-send "Hello World"

Caveats: NotifyOSD cannot handle notifications requiring user response. However there is windowed fall-back available although it is visually less appealing. Hopefully the guys at Ubuntu will add user response support.
EDIT: Ubuntu guys will never add support as it is "by design". Hopefully, the "check user response support" patches will go upstream. Figures that Ubuntu is not playing nicely....


PS. I've taken Mandriva's spec file for NotifyOSD and adjusted some parameters so that it will build in Fedora. So credit for the spec file goes to the Mandriva guys!

[pcutler]

Hi Fuzzie, thanks for posting this, unfortunately this isn't working for me.

When I double-click the RPM to install it, I get the message:

Two packages provide the same file.
This is usually due to mixing packages from different software sources.

More details;
Test Transaction Errors: file /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service from install of notify-osd-0.9.14.1-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package notification-daemon-0.4.0-3.fc11.x86_64

This on a clean Fedora install with RPM Fusion repos enabled on x86_64.

Thanks.

Paul

[Fuzzie]

Hi Fuzzie, thanks for posting this, unfortunately this isn't working for me.

When I double-click the RPM to install it, I get the message:

Two packages provide the same file.
This is usually due to mixing packages from different software sources.

More details;
Test Transaction Errors: file /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service from install of notify-osd-0.9.14.1-1.x86_64 conflicts with file from package notification-daemon-0.4.0-3.fc11.x86_64

This on a clean Fedora install with RPM Fusion repos enabled on x86_64.

Thanks.

Paul

Sorry about that! I uploaded the wrong SRPM Please re-download it again.

...or you can also force rpm install but i would not recommend that as that would cause problems

[pcutler]

Thank you! It worked, I love notify-osd

[wvn]

neither way works.mirror problems

UPDATE

Manual download works, but osd did not change.

[Fuzzie]

neither way works.mirror problems

UPDATE

Manual download works, but osd did not change.

I don't mean to be rude but this isn't helpful at all.

What errors are you getting from yum? What do you mean osd did not change? Do you mean the dbus notifications did not change? (There's nothing called "osd" in default fedora)

Have you read how to set the thing up like in the post and then restart your gnome session?

[wvn]

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My bad. Works now.Thanks a lot. Ubintu osd-notify is indeed very sexy.

[rarbox]

I get the following error when I tried installing using yum.

Downloading Packages:
http://xrylite.uni.cc/fedora/releases/11/i386/notify-osd-0.9.14.1-1.i586.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable
Trying other mirror.

Error Downloading Packages:
  notify-osd-0.9.14.1-1.i586: failure: notify-osd-0.9.14.1-1.i586.rpm from fuzzie: (256, 'No more mirrors to try.')

[wvn]

Thats the error i got the first time. Keep trying, it will be available sooner or later

[Nokia]

Doesn't work here. Instead of "the sexy" I got messages in the middle of the screen, piling up and offering three options:Show,Cancel,... Might have anything to do with CairoDock I'm using ?

[rarbox]

Now I get a different error (2 hours later).

Downloading Packages:
notify-osd-0.9.14.1-1.i586.rpm                                          | 145 kB     00:48     
http://xrylite.uni.cc/fedora/releases/11/i386/notify-osd-0.9.14.1-1.i586.rpm: (-1, u'Package does not match intended download')
Trying other mirror.


Error Downloading Packages:
  notify-osd-0.9.14.1-1.i586: failure: notify-osd-0.9.14.1-1.i586.rpm from fuzzie: (256, 'No more mirrors to try.')

I give up.

[pcutler]

It seems Fuzzie's hosting provider has suspended his page/ account.

Does anyone have the source rpm they can email me? I'm wanting to rebuild it, and am more than willing to host it for people as well.

Thanks.

Paul

[Fuzzie]

It seems Fuzzie's hosting provider has suspended his page/ account.

Does anyone have the source rpm they can email me? I'm wanting to rebuild it, and am more than willing to host it for people as well.

Thanks.

Paul

Hi, I haven't been very active since my laptop died. The source rpm and the built ones are up again. Sorry

[pcutler]

Thanks again!

[pcutler]

Thanks again!

One question though - I've re-installed Fedora a couple of times over the last couple months, and the first time I was using notify-osd it was working correctly with Banshee / notify-sharp. The last two installs I've done over the last month, when Banshee changes song, I get a dialog box instead - and if I don't close it, by the time an album finishes I'll have a lot of dialog boxes.

Is anyone else seeing this in F11 (x86_64)

Screenshot here: http://www.silwenae.org/etc/notify-sharp.png

Thanks.

Paul