Ubuntu
libnotify package

When no icon is shown, notification bubbles show up in lower right corner of screen

Bug #45659 reported by John Dong
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #36290: Misplaced bubble after suspend. Edit Remove
16
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
libnotify (Ubuntu)
New
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

If I perform a suspend on AC and fully charged battery, on resume I'll get the Suspend Failed bubble (I think I caused this with some of my /etc/acpi tweaking). However, since there is no icon when the battery is fully charged and the system is on AC, the notification bubble shows up right beside the pager in the lower right corner of the screen.

Revision history for this message
Richard Hughes (richard-hughes) wrote :

This is by design. g-p-m doesn't place the icon in this case, it leaves it up to notification-daemon which has chosen bottom right.

Revision history for this message
Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

Not sure how to close this. Is it a bug, or a feature?

Revision history for this message
Richard Hughes (richard-hughes) wrote :

Well neither really. It's just policy set by n-d, so I say NOTABUG.

Revision history for this message
John Dong (jdong) wrote : Re: [Bug 45659] Re: When no icon is shown, notification bubbles show up in lower right corner of screen

It's a pretty crummy feature if that's what it is... For some absurd reason,
notifications usually pop up in the *notification area *that's located in
the top right next to the *notification* icons. The bottom right is where
the desktop panel switcher is located, and *nothing *else pops notifications
in the bottom right.

On 5/31/06, Paul Sladen <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Not sure how to close this. Is it a bug, or a feature?
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: gnome-power-manager => libnotify
>
> --
> When no icon is shown, notification bubbles show up in lower right corner
> of screen
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/45659
>

Revision history for this message
Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

mvo: perhaps orphaned notifcations should show up in the top-right instead of bottom-left?

Perhaps then they could travel down to the bottom right, whilst fading out, rotating and performing handstands on their way out.

My personal fix for this particular issue would be to have gnome-power-manager set to "Always show icon" if `laptop-detect` returns true. This is the first modification I make to g-p-m after each new version comes in and wipes the previous config.

To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.
Subscribing...

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.