No notifications on debian 10

[strct]

I followed the manual instrunctions from the readme:

> curl -Lo ~/.config/fish/conf.d/done.fish --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/franciscolourenco/done/master/conf.d/done.fish

Even after logging in again sleep 6 doesn't lead to a notification. I have no clue what I have done wrong, or what part isn't working. I would be happy if you can help. Thanks for your time.

System information:

• Debian 10
• With Gnome
• tried fish version 3.0.2 and 3.1.2 from backports

• > echo $__done_version
  1.15.0

Edit:

notify-send test leads to a notification

[franciscolourenco]

@strct I just installed Debian 10.9.0 and notify-send on a VM, but can't even get a notification with notify-send test. How did you configure notify send?

[strct]

I didn't notice notify-send isn't installed by default. I tried to create a minimal environment (i have set up a virtual machine now as well).

On this machine I installed Debian 10.9.0 with the Gnome desktop environment (gnome-shell). Then as root apt install libnotify-bin curl fish to install notify-send.
Now notify-send test produces a notification when run from the logged in user.

Configure fish with the command:

curl -Lo ~/.config/fish/conf.d/done.fish --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/franciscolourenco/done/master/conf.d/done.fish

Reboot to ensure config files get read (logout+login might be sufficient).

user@debian:~$ fish
Welcome to fish, the friendly interactive shell
user@debian ~> sleep 6
user@debian ~> notify-send test
user@debian ~> echo $__done_version
1.15.0

sleep 6 didn't produce a notification, but notify-send did.

[franciscolourenco]

The error is in https://github.com/franciscolourenco/done/blob/master/conf.d/done.fish#L83 which throws TypeError: global.display.focus_window.get_it is not a function

I don't have time to debug this at the moment since I don't use Debian, but a PR would be more than welcome :)

[yajo]

No notifications in Fedora 35 either.

It's probably related to the enhanced security measures on some DBus calls in GNOME 41: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/635740/50281

[oxysoft]

No notifications either for me on Manjaro with Gnome, worked when I was using XFCE a few weeks ago.
notify-send works as usual. I'm using sleep 6 to test.

[manu156]

Workaround: use a gnome extension to expose Eval.
Extension: https://github.com/manu156/eval-gjs
Also modify done.fish to use this:
gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.Shell --object-path /dev/ramottamado/EvalGjs --method dev.ramottamado.EvalGjs.Eval 'global.display.focus_window.get_id()'
However this will introduce security risks probably or whatever https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/3943

[franciscolourenco]

Looks like the same root cause as #134

[franciscolourenco]

https://github.com/franciscolourenco/done/releases/tag/1.19.0 added an option to enable notifications on Wayland while using the Kitty terminal. Thanks @jinliu!