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mate-desktop / mate-notification-daemon

Daemon to display passive pop-up notifications
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Allow setting the exit timeout #182

Closed wmww closed 3 years ago

wmww commented 3 years ago

Status quo

Previously, 30 seconds after the last notification disappears the daemon exited. This timeout was hard-coded.

Issue

I can only assume on MATE that some other process is claiming the DBus name and spinning up the daemon whenever a notification comes through. Whatever that process is, it doesn't work when I run the the daemon on Sway without other MATE components running. I have to run it in a service that constantly restarts it, which is annoying.

Proposal

This PR keeps the 30 seconds as the default and adds a command line option that allows setting it to something else (notably -1 which will disable the timeout).

wmww commented 3 years ago

I now understand that DBus services are a thing and that's how mate-notification-daemon is expected to be run. With that information, this PR no longer makes sense.