On Mon, 1 Feb 2021, at 09:37, Andrej Shadura wrote:
> I’m trying to use mate-notification-daemon without mate-screensaver, and
> it doesn’t work. If I keep mate-screensaver installed but not running,
> it starts on its own from time to time — turns out it’s
> mate-notification-daemon
> which prods it. Apparently, mate-notification-daemon checks whether a
> screensaver is running before showing a notification, and it hardcodes
> the mate-screensaver’s D-Bus interface org.mate.ScreenSaver instead of
> using some other cross-DE method.
I’d also like to add that failing to talk to mate-screensaver, it ends up not
showing a notification at all, making itself unusable for its primary purpose.
The hard dependency on mate-screensaver is also not declared in the
dependencies.
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Cheers,
Andrej
