Notifications in dunst stick and don't timeout

[marcusorjames]

I'm not sure if this is specifically a dunst issue or for any notification system, but my chat notifications never timeout. The urgency seems to be set to normal which is fine and my timeout is set to 4 seconds, which all other normal urgency notifications abide by. Hangups just sticks forever until I open hangups and the message marks as read.

Happy for this to be a flag, if the default behaviour is for it to stick until read.

Thanks for an otherwise fantastic application.

Running Ubuntu 18.04, Dunst 1.3.0

[tdryer]

Currently hangups is setting the timeout to -1. According to the spec this means:

the notification's expiration time is dependent on the notification server's settings, and may vary for the type of notification.

We could certainly add a flag for this.

[marcusorjames]

Interesting, so if that's the case then it should be abiding by my settings, but this is not what I am seeing. I'm not sure setting a flag is a good idea, it might just be my environment ignoring the -1.

[Terrance]

hangups/hangups/ui/notifier.py

Line 64 in 9145528

'{summary}', '{body}', '[]', '{{}}', ' -1'

Is the leading space in that argument intentional? Might it be causing DBus to parse it badly?

[tdryer]

The leading space is required for some reason. According to dbus-monitor the value is parsed correctly.