Enable notify-osd

notify-osd is the application that causes pop-up “bubbles” for system events / notifications many users are used to seeing in Gnome desktops. To enable it in Bodhi do the following:

First things first, install notify-osd:

sudo apt-get install notify-osd

Next we need to edit a single file to make sure notify-osd always starts up (by default it will only start in Gnome). To do this run the following:

sudo leafpad /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service

You should see a file that has the following contents:

[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
Exec=/bin/sh -c 'if [ ! -x /usr/lib/notification-daemon/notification-daemon ] ||   ||   ||  ; then exec /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd; else exec /usr/lib/notification-daemon/notification-daemon; fi'

Replace the contents of the file with:

[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
Exec=/usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd

Log out and log back in and notify-osd will be functioning.

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