Some options provided to libnotify not work

[skyeagle]

Here is the irb example:

1.9.3p392 :001 > require 'libnotify'
 => true 
1.9.3p392 :002 > Libnotify::VERSION
 => "0.8.0"
1.9.3p392 :003 > Libnotify.show(:body => "hello", :summary => "world", :timeout => 1, :append => true)
 => true 
1.9.3p392 :004 > Libnotify.show(:body => "hello", :summary => "world", :timeout => 1, :append => true)
 => true 

Messages have been displayed but with much longer timeout and
successively instead of appending.

My sistem is Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64.
libnotify4 version is 0.7.5-1

Any help appreciated. Thank you.

[splattael]

I guess Ubuntu overrides some timeouts. Sadly, I cannot verify this behaviour until next monday :-(

[jerefrer]

Yep you're right, here is the discussion about it : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/390508

[splattael]

@jerefrer Thanks for the hint.
@skyeagle Quoting from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD#org.freedesktop.Notifications.Notify

All other hints, and all other parameters (including expire_timeout) should be ignored.

Damn :-(

[jerefrer]

I did manage to make it work by using a patched version of the NotifyOSD package. See this post.

[skyeagle]

@jerefrer thanks for workaround but unfortunately it doesn't contain x64 version '(

[splattael]

I've added a caveat to README describing the problem on Ubuntu.

Sorry, guys :-(