Comments on: [HOW TO] Get the new Notifications on Intrepid

By: Stefano Forenza

Stefano Forenza — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:54:46 +0000

@Christophe: nice you like it. As far as I know, for now the only ubuntu specific bit is the notifications. But the session name is generic by purpose, so other stuff may come in the future.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:45:46 +0000

@Stefano Forenza

Awesome !!! I had no idea this pkg existed.
I don’t know what other ubuntu specifics gnome stuff are not available, but it looks perfect.

Thanks you !!!

By: Stefano Forenza

Stefano Forenza — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:49:46 +0000

@Christophe: as far as I know, the new notifications aren’t that hackable. That said, you may want to try to look at the source, you could eventually discover some gconf key or quick hack to do what you want.

Another workaround is to use the old notifications. On jaunty just install the gnome-stracciatella-session package. It will add a new session type in your login screen (gdm).

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:48:30 +0000

With the new notifications of jaunty, is there a way to have multiple notifications like in the old days ?

If I do “notify-send abc def” twice on the old one, it would show them one of the top of another, instead the new libnotify will wait for the first notification to timeout before showing the second one. It’s pretty annoying, do you know how to fix that ?

By: Edmundo Castro

Edmundo Castro — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:36:24 +0000

I got stuck in the step make, everything seemed like it installed but when I entered the command “make” it says “make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.” Please help

By: Stefano Forenza

Stefano Forenza — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:34:41 +0000

@Taylor: I have no clue.
I downloaded from bzr for you. download http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/226586/notify-osd.zip and uncompress it. This way you’ll be able to skip the bzr step.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:06:04 +0000

No one have any suggestions? It’s still this error:
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bzr: ERROR: Invalid http response for http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Enotify-osd-developers/notify-osd/main/.bzr/repository/packs/28aa9418bb9c0d0b49353b1ffcf7575a.pack: Missing the Content-Range header in a 206 range response
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Now, granted, I have no idea how bzr works and I have never used it before. I’m just trying to follow these tutorials to get the new notifications.

Does it help to know that this error comes right after this message?
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You have not informed bzr of your launchpad login. If you are attempting a
write operation and it fails, run “bzr launchpad-login YOUR_ID” and try again.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:06:26 +0000

@Ubukool: Haha, I DID update to Jaunty and my computer and usb devices were fairly incompatible, so I switched back to Ubutnu Intrepid 8.10. How might I find out if I have all the right dependencies? (Sorry, I’m a noob).

@Stefano: I’ve tried several times, haha. I’m on Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10. Thanks for the advice, I’ll try it out.

By: Stefano Forenza

Stefano Forenza — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:38:11 +0000

@Taylor: first of all, try again. It may be just a one-time error cause by net glitches.

Otherwise: which distro are you on ? My guess it’s debian or ubuntu hardy. I don’t know which version of bzr is required to connect to launchpad, but I advise you to upgrade your bzr version if you find out it’s not the latest.

You can also check the #bzr irc channel to get direct help in debugging your issue, they’re all kind and quite knowledgeable in bzr and launchpad issues.

By: Ubukool

Ubukool — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:06:22 +0000

erm…perhaps an obvious question…

Why don’t you just upgrade to Jaunty where you’ll get the notifications automatically?

Otherwise, have you checked to make sure you’ve got all the dependencies?