On 1/5/25 12:32 PM, deloptes via tde-users wrote: I have been doing that all afternoon across several different systems. Some user accounts launch knotify and some do not. I have been unable to find anything unique to cause the differences. I even diffed the $TDEHOME directories. I get the vague feeling the problem is related to whatever knotify depends for backend packages, if any. I have had issues with the kdbusnotification package. We had a discussion here many months ago. The notable issue for me is the daemon ignores the notify-send expire-time parameter and seems fixed at 6 seconds or so. I use the expire-time parameter.

On 1/5/25 12:32 PM, deloptes via tde-users wrote: Please share anything related. Other than ensuring knotify is compiled, I have yet to find any useful information.

On 1/6/25 11:39 AM, deloptes via tde-users wrote: I know knotify is compiled because there are related lib files. Also knotify sometimes loads, but I haven't found why knotify does not load consistently on all systems. I need to resolve that issue before I can look into the size of the popups. I don't see anything related in kcontrol other than sounds, which is internal to TDE. My focus is creating notification popups externally with notify-send. My guess is notify-send requires a dbus dependent notification daemon. Because the kdbusnotifcation package is buggy I am using the xfce4 notification daemon. The only kcontrol items I see about feedback are related to launching tools or the mouse cursor.

On 1/6/25 2:58 PM, deloptes via tde-users wrote: The notify-send command is part of the libnotify package. I am reasonably certain recent versions require dbus. Any notification daemon can be used. Multiple daemons can be installed, but there is no specification about which daemon gets called on request. I looked into that oddity not long ago. The xfce4 notification daemon is fine to interact with notify-send, regardless of the desktop environment. There are issues with the kdbusnotification package. Notably, in TDE notifications ignore the notify-send 'expire-time' parameter. Related notification durations seem fixed at about 6 seconds. We had a discussion about this about a year and a half ago or so. I think I filed a bug report but I don't remember. Yesterday I again tried using kdbusnotification and saw the same shortfall. I have both of the TDE dbus-tqt packages installed. Yes, I saw. I don't think those options are related to system system notification popups. I am tinkering with rebuilding the user TDE profile from scratch. A huge time consuming inconvenience and I still cannot get the TDE knotify process to launch consistently with each login. System notification popups with notify-send seem to be functional though so perhaps that oddity is a should shrug. That does not resolve the size of the system notification popups. In that respect I'm still at square one. I don't know what knotify is supposed to do. I haven't tried to browse the code to see what the purpose of knotify might be. My original focus hasn't changed though -- the size of the system notification popups are too small.