Option to set notify-send timeout

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Is there any option to set the notify-send expire-time ? Messages are 
disappearing too fast imho (~6 seconds). Is it possible to set "-1" for example 
? Something like a notification-history with the last few notfications would 
also be a cool feature. What do you think ?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by godzilla...@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2010 at 10:49

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Growl configuration gives you that option - you can also set them to sticky so 
they won't disappear.

Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2010 at 10:56

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But afaik Growl is not available for Linux, or am I wrong ? 
I think an option to change the libnotify settings would be good anyway because 
it's already installed by default...

Original comment by godzilla...@gmail.com on 5 Oct 2010 at 1:08

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Me too... But it seems the ubuntu developers do not want third party programs 
changing their timeout settings, more info in this issue: 
http://code.google.com/p/android-notifier-desktop/issues/detail?id=50&can=1&q=no
tify-send

Notification history has been requested in issue 164.

People really need a Growl for Linux, there is this one but it seems dead: 
http://www.mumbles-project.org/

Original comment by lehph...@gmail.com on 5 Oct 2010 at 1:20

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Component-UI, OpSys-Linux, Priority-Medium, Usability

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It seems to be possible, however it does not change anything for me.

#man notify-send
...
-t, --expire-time=TIME
              Specifies  the  timeout  in  milliseconds at which to expire the
              notification
...

Original comment by peter.v...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2010 at 1:19

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It should work but the ubuntu developers disabled it despite it being specified 
in freedesktop standards.

Original comment by lehph...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2010 at 1:45

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I know it's possible to change the expiration time, but I don't know how to set 
it especially for android-notifier. This is what I am asking, an option to set 
the expiration-time inside the android-notifier desktop app.
I'm not using Ubuntu, I'm on Debian testing and/or sid. I can send with 
different expiration times from shell without issues...

Original comment by godzilla...@gmail.com on 15 Oct 2010 at 10:53

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If ubuntu does not support it, we can't support it because people will keep 
asking why it doesn't work. Unfortunately, Ubuntu is the most used Linux 
distro, so we have to be completely compatible with it.

Original comment by lehph...@gmail.com on 15 Oct 2010 at 1:17

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Taking over lehphyro's issues.

Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com on 11 Jan 2011 at 4:31