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Unobtrusive Notification Manager for i3
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Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such method “ShowNotifications” #1

Closed akhiljalagam closed 4 years ago

sencer commented 4 years ago

Try stopping the other notification manager first, then restart this.

nicklan commented 4 years ago

I'm having this issue too. I've done killall dunst, and then tried to restart i3-notifier with dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications /org/freedesktop/Notifications org.freedesktop.Notifications.ShowNotifications, but I still get the "No such method" error.

Perhaps there's some basic thing I missing, but I don't see anything in the docs about how to restart i3-notifier other than running that dbus-send command.

If I am missing something basic, and you don't want to use issues to address basics, maybe put the basics in the README?

sencer commented 4 years ago

Why do you think dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications /org/freedesktop/Notifications --dest=org.freedesktop.Notifications /org/freedesktop/Notifications org.freedesktop.Notifications.ShowNotifications will restart i3-notifier. It merely tells the running i3-notifier process to show the notifications. To restart it you will need to kill it & restart the way you started initially; that is calling i3-notifier command. Now if you think I should put readme this information I would happily merge a decent pull request.

To start i3-notifier please bring up a terminal, write i3-notifier and press enter. To kill it run pkill i3-notifier. To restart it, first kill it and then restart it.

nicklan commented 4 years ago

Ahh I see, thanks.

Yeah, it's not clear that you need to start it manually, and when installed via pip (as recommended in the readme) it's not in your path (unless you've added ~/.local/bin to your path which isn't the default). I actually did want to try running it as a command but didn't realize that's where it had ended up as I basically never use pip otherwise.

sencer commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. Updated the README.