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I have the problem that xfce4-notifyd.service is not starting when I login to my machine (Ubuntu 18.04.2 with XFCE).

I tried the solution mentioned here but still no change in behaviour: https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=12213

Currently I have to manually start it each time after login is finished - how can I debug / troubleshoot this?

Thanks!

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Run journalctl -f to follow logs and then try notify-send test from another terminal. If notify-send hangs and after a timeout you see the following error message in journalctl:

org.freedesktop.Notifications[12345]: org.kde.knotifications: WaitForName: Service was not registered within timeout

The issue may be that you have plasma-workspace installed. If you don't need it anymore, remove it (sudo apt-get remove plasma-workspace), mind that this removes packages like plasma-desktop. Notifications should work again after removing this package.

See this bug report for details.

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  • Thank you! Your answer helped me resolve a long-standing annoyance I had
    – asgs
    Jan 6, 2021 at 17:42
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I solved the problem:

Using "journalctl" I checked the logs again and saw this message that got my attention:

org.kde.knotifications: WaitForName: Service was not registered within timeout

So I checked "/usr/share/dbus-1/services" for a file named "org.kde.knotifications".

I found the file and renamed it:

sudo mv org.kde.plasma.Notifications.service org.kde.plasma.Notifications.service.bak

After a reboot everything works fine again

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