dunst configuration file not working? {SOLVED]

tld · Veteran Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 1816

EDIT: As per my reply below I've changed the subject here.

Wow...Feel like I'm loosing my mind here.

Some time back I installed x11-libs/libnotify and started using the notify-send program for a few monitoring cron jobs I run for my user. When I did that, I found some way to configure it so as to center the notifications at the bottom of my screen. Note that I have dbus installed (mainly because it was required for thunderbird) but I've never had it's service running. It's always appeared that notify-send just starts a background process for that if it's not already running.

I just updated recently, though none of that should have been affected. Now out of nowhere my messages started appearing in the upper right, which is exactly what I don't want. However a) I CANNOT recall what/where the file was where I configured that, and b) I've Googled everything imaginable, and can't find what that might have been!? In fact some things seem to indicate that you can't configure it(?).

HELP. This is just beyond weird.

Tom

tld · Veteran Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 1816

OK...now this is making a little more sense. I'd forgotten that the actual notification server I'd installed was dunst. In my update that was in fact updated from 1.6.1 to x11-misc/dunst-1.7.3.

The config file is at ~/.config/dunst/dunstrc and must not be working in the new version...will dig further.

Tom

tld · Veteran Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 1816

OK...marked this one as solved. Apparently in dunst-1.7.3 for format of the dunstrc file changed significantly, most notably the "geometry" setting I was using no longer exists. As it turns out, getting the bottom / centered notifications is actually much simpler in the new version: