After installing i3 I now have the i3 notification theme on unity. How can I change it back?

Question

I installed i3 alongside unity but now I see the i3 notification box while on unity.

How can I change this back to the unity one without removing i3? The other solutions to this problem seem to be removing the other WM/DE

Answer 1

For me this worked, I'm running Ubuntu 16.04

run the following commands withsudo

create a file /usr/bin/user_notify and write the following text to the file.

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
if pgrep -x i3 >/dev/null ; then
  /usr/bin/dunst
else
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/notify-osd
fi

make the file executable by running chmod a+x /usr/bin/user_notify

open the file /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.knopwob.dunst.service and replace Exec=/usr/bin/dunst by Exec=/usr/bin/user_notify

Remark To use the standard unity notifier (also in i3) just replace Exec=/usr/bin/dunst by Exec=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/notify-osd in the file /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.knopwob.dunst.service.

Answer 2

For me, inspired by the other answers, sudo apt remove dunst and logging out and in again was sufficient.