Re: desktop notifications (Re: idea for capture anywhere in x)

[Max Nikulin]

On 26/10/2022 13:22, Samuel Wales wrote:
> i have the daemon and the binary but notify-send "summary" "text"
> seems to do nothing obvious.  called from shell mode.  my emacs is
> maximized.  so is firefox.

Does notify-send complain (with some delay) concerning timeout during 
attempt to connect to d-bus?

I have found an Eric's message recommending dunst as a notification 
daemon for fluxbox.

Firefox has a fallback implementation to display notifications in the 
case of d-bus failure, so it is not the best app to test their appearance.

Fluxbox released versions (e.g. from Debian and Ubuntu packages) has a 
bug that may cause some applications, in particular Firefox, to be 
displayed above other windows. So it may hide a notification window. 
However if you have a terminal application in front of you, it should 
not be your case.

I am unsure if functions from notifications.el are better than 
notify-send in respect to error reporting.

Have you considered playing a tune as a notification?