'Connected to Tor.' message missing in Qubes-Whonix 14 / notify-send broken in Qubes-Whonix 14

[adrelanos]

Qubes OS version:

R4

Affected component(s):

Whonix

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Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Boot Whonix 14.

notify-send --expire-time 20000 '[sys-whonix]' 'Connected to Tor.'

Expected behavior:

passive popup functional just like in non-Whonix VMs.

Actual behavior:

No passive popup shown.

General notes:

Not happening in R3.2. Strange, no?

Installing package mate-notification-daemon fixes the issue. This this an acceptable solution?

[marmarek]

Is there any other notification daemon installed? dpkg -l|grep notification?
Is hardcoding mate-notification-daemon in dependencies a good idea? Isn't it a problem when one use KDE (non-Whonix?)?

[marmarek]

Is there any other notification daemon installed? dpkg -l|grep notification?
Is hardcoding mate-notification-daemon in dependencies a good idea? Isn't it a problem when one use KDE (non-Whonix?)?

[marmarek]

It may be related to reduced dependencies of qubes-core-agent (split into smaller packages, split qubes-vm-recommended/qubes-vm-depencendies).

[marmarek]

It may be related to reduced dependencies of qubes-core-agent (split into smaller packages, split qubes-vm-recommended/qubes-vm-depencendies).

[adrelanos]

Marek Marczykowski-Górecki:

Is there any other notification daemon installed? `dpkg -l|grep notification`?

No. Strangely that is ok for Non-Qubes-Whonix but not for Qubes-Whonix.)

Is hardcoding `mate-notification-daemon` in dependencies a good idea? Isn't it a problem when one use KDE (non-Whonix?)?

Could be in theory. But works well in VirtualBox KDE Non-Qubes-Whonix. So good enough.

[adrelanos]

Marek Marczykowski-Górecki:

Is there any other notification daemon installed? `dpkg -l|grep notification`?

No. Strangely that is ok for Non-Qubes-Whonix but not for Qubes-Whonix.)

Is hardcoding `mate-notification-daemon` in dependencies a good idea? Isn't it a problem when one use KDE (non-Whonix?)?

Could be in theory. But works well in VirtualBox KDE Non-Qubes-Whonix. So good enough.