The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files

[RidaAyed]

Hi

Since upgrading Arch Linux from 4.15 to 4.16 via $pacman -Syyu I got this message upon running $ gnome-pomodoro:

** (gnome-pomodoro:4862): CRITICAL **: file notifications-capability.c: line 1118: unexpected error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files (g-dbus-error-quark, 2)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Any ideas where I should start digging?

[kafendt]

I am having the same issue

[chikh]

@RidaAyed It depends on your DE (or absence of it), but this have helped me: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_notifications#Standalone

[westofer]

this might help someone

mkdir -p $XDG_DATA_HOME/dbus-1/services

echo '
[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
Exec=/usr/lib/notification-daemon-1.0/notification-daemon
' > $XDG_DATA_HOME/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service

[Lebsasha]

Thank you. It helped me with Linux Debian 10 with LXDE desktop environment. Although in my case, I need to replace the path to notification-daemon:
[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
Exec=/usr/lib/notification-daemon/notification-daemon

[DeepakDenre]

I am also getting the same error

GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files

In termux after installing tigervnc and xfce4 can anyone help

[slyfox1186]

For anyone concerned this fixed my issue.

GitHub Script

[xbello]

Thank you. It helped me with Linux Debian 10 with LXDE desktop environment. Although in my case, I need to replace the path to notification-daemon: [D-BUS Service] Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications Exec=/usr/lib/notification-daemon/notification-daemon

You must find where your notification-daemon lives, maybe using locate notification-daemon. In my Fedora + LXDE, it is at /usr/libexec/notification-daemon.

[dhjw]

On my minimal LXDE I also had to sudo apt install notification-daemon

[kamilprusko]

Changed the use of org.freedesktop.Notifications to be optional. Without it, notifications won't have buttons... I don't remember why we disable them. I assume it was a done for Unity.

XFCE supports buttons ok. It doesn't respect withdrawal of notifications. Notifications tend to accumulate on the desktop.

I haven't tested Pomodoro on a minimal LXDE. If buttons work ok, we could just just assume that buttons work on every desktop now.