I'm sorry to say that this makes notify-osd unusable for certain
applications, which need to control the timeout of the notification to
smaller values as well as vary the placement and opacity.

IMHO, it should not be the job of the tool to decide how it is being
used. If an application delivers "notification spam" people should take
it up with the makers of that application. Enforcing artificial and
subjective limitations in notify-osd seems to me quite the misplaced
effort.

In the meantime, I suppose tools like aosd, xosd, gnome-osd etc. will
have to keep being used. Which is a pity, since I was hoping notify-osd
to be able to unify and replace them.

Back to the topic: it's still not clear to me, after reading the
aforementioned docs, why certain bubbles (volume, brightness) are
allowed to use shorter timeouts and stacking, whereas custom bubbles are
stuck with sequential display and minum timeout of 5 seconds. It looks
like the creators are perfectly aware of the need for stacking and
shorter timeouts on occasions, but have just arbitrarily decided to make
it a pain in the butt to access them(!) Why?

I respectfully urge the powers-that-be in charge of notify-osd to
reconsider. I like the current timeout spec, but only as a feature. We
need to be able to override it sometimes. This is a stringent, real
need. Attempting to suppress it is, sorry to say, delusional, and will
only lead to the appearance of patches that implement this.

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notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter
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