From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/82528 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus-notifications popup style Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:19:49 +0100 Message-ID: <87vccz9bdm.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <87fw43rs3t.fsf@free.fr> <87a9ubm1pp.fsf@dex.adm.naquadah.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353514840 6047 80.91.229.3 (21 Nov 2012 16:20:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:20:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Julien Cubizolles Original-X-From: ding-owner+M30794@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Nov 21 17:20:49 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TbD2f-0005gg-A7 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:20:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1TbD1s-0006y9-7y; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:20:00 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1TbD1p-0006xs-Dv for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:19:57 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TbD1n-0005Lw-Ng for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:19:57 -0600 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TbD1m-0001oO-2E for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:19:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D98231A4067; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:19:53 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Fax_YXFvLhaj; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:19:52 +0100 (CET) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender noch tsdh@gnu.org Original-Received: from thinkpad.tsdh.de (tsdh.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.67.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4C5DF1A4051; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:19:52 +0100 (CET) Mail-Followup-To: Julien Cubizolles , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87a9ubm1pp.fsf@dex.adm.naquadah.org> (Julien Danjou's message of "Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:10:10 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:82528 Archived-At: Julien Danjou writes: >> I recently discovered (and tried successfully) >> gnus-notifications. However the popups it uses are big (and ugly) >> standard gtk windows and not the nice OSD ones used by other >> notifications (volume/wifi/battery). I was under the impression that >> it would use the standard notification method, as gnus-desktop-notify >> (another gnus notification tool) does. > > gnus-notifications relies on Freedesktop notifications API: > > http://developer.gnome.org/notification-spec/ > > I don't know about gnus-desktop-notify. It seems it uses the > `notify-send' program, which should do the same. FWIW, I get the nice GNOME3 notifications. I think, I used to start it as --daemon from some GNOME autostart file, and then the notifications were just plain grey GTK boxes. When I start emacs "normally" from the dock or a gnome terminal, it works just fine. Bye, Tassilo