Application Startup Notify fully ignored

It isn't problem of pcmanfm as libfm (and pcmanfm in turn) correctly prepares notification, but Openbox fails to change cursor, it's why startup notification doesn't work from any application running in Openbox. That issue was fixed in some version of Openbox, you have to upgrade or patch it. Thank you.

I use Openbox 3.5.2-3 (the latest version in Lubuntu) and the startup notification is missing.
I noticed that in Openbox for Ubuntu the issue was patched (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openbox/3.5.2-4) and re-patched.
What should I do?

Yours Lubuntu version is unsupported. Please update to latest stable version.

I'm running utopic Lubuntu 3.16.0-14 O.K. on Compaq Presario.

During development when the desktop isn't running right, I do a Ctrl-Alt-F1, on command line log in, then
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
y
sudo reboot

Widescreen monitor so I put the panel including startup etc. on the left side adjust the applet sizes looks much like Unity except I get one more horizontal text line. I choose panel background transparent so the applets look like they are floating above the background, an Australian beach scene with my wife in a bathing suit.

NOT FIXED AT ALL!!! No one single Debian or Ubuntu spin-off distro using LXDE+OPENBOX has "Startup Notification" working!! Neither the fresh news Lubuntu 16.04.1 or LXLE 16.04.1.
I won't listen any lame suggestion about replacing openbox with Kwin or Metacity as window manager, because if I wanted a BLOATED HEAVY system, I woul choose WINDOWS 10, which is much more beautiful than any linux distro, although is BLOATED and requires 2GB RAM.

If changing the window manager fixes this (does it?), then the bug needs to be refiled to OpenBox. If someone can confirm a new version of OpenBox fixes this, a version number would help. Calling it fixed with no details is problematic.

Oh, and Usuarioh, if it's a window manager problem, there are plenty of lightweight ones out there. FluxBox might be worth a shot.

Walter Lapchynski,

-“If changing the window manager fixes this (does it?), then the bug needs to be refiled to OpenBox.”
This is not only an OpenBonx issue, because Fedora 24 LXDE+openbox has a fully functional working “Startup Notification”, so it’s an Ubuntu+Debian+all_its_spin-off_distros using LXDE+openbox or openbox issue.

-”If someone can confirm a new version of OpenBox fixes this, a version number would help. Calling it fixed with no details is problematic.”
This is what is happening sometimes: some moron saying that the OpenBox version number xxx.yyy fixed the problem, when in reality didn't fix anything

-”Oh, and Usuarioh, if it's a window manager problem, there are plenty of lightweight ones out there. FluxBox might be worth a shot.”
If you know any desktop+window_manager with memory footprint under 150 MB and a FULLY FUNCTIONAL STARTUP NOTIFICATION WORKING (this is not the Flux Box case!), be my guest and show me.

The problem is a missing build dependency in openbox package - libxcursor-dev.
Fix it ASAP, please, for both currently used LTS distros. Thank you.

"LStranger (andrej-rep) wrote on 2016-09-19: The problem is a missing build dependency in openbox package - libxcursor-dev."

I am using LXLE 16.04 (Lubuntu 16.04 LTS based), I built and installed openbox following the above instruction (adding libxcursor-dev parameter in /debian/control file to be built), but no luck, no "Startup Notification", it didn't work. Please, before any moron (and make me waste my time) post any message talking about "simple way to fix the problem", must be sure and/or give a sample or example that it really works.

You make call me any way you want but in fact, it worked in both 14.04 and 16.04, otherwise I would not write such thing. It may not work for you, though, if your cursor theme does not support "waiting" cursor, but openbox package properly rebuilt with libxcursor-dev as a build dependency supports startup notification.
dixi

This bug was fixed in the package openbox - 3.6.1-4

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openbox (3.6.1-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Bruno Pennati ]
  * Update manpage. (Closes: #800669)

  [ Mateusz Łukasik ]
  * debian/control:
    + Add plasma-workspace to openbox-kde-session depends. (Closes: #845386)
  * debian/patches:
    + Add fix-spelling-error-in-binary.patch.

 -- Mateusz Łukasik <email address hidden> Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:51:09 +0100

I'll get to this ASAP, but it doesn't look like a pcmanfm problem.

Thanks.

Hello Lorenzo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted openbox into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openbox/3.6.1-1ubuntu2.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Hello Lorenzo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted openbox into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openbox/3.5.2-6ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-trusty to verification-done-trusty. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-trusty. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Chris J Arges,
4 years have passed but thank you for your support. :-)

The startup notification now works but has some big flaws.
Since this is a patch to openbox I will do the tests in a stable and standard-compliant environment to see if the bug persists or not.

Environment: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) with XFCE 4 + Openbox 3.6.1-4 + notification-daemon installed
Hardware: Core i5, 8Gb RAM

CHANGELOG:
openbox (3.6.1-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * debian/control:
    + Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.8.
    + Use secured links for VCS.
    + Add libxcursor-dev to B-D. (Closes: #838326, LP: #1336521)

NOTE: "LP: #1336521" is *this* bug in notifications.

Tests:

[Test Case 1]

 0. Started cpulimit to limit the execution to 3% of the total CPU power.
 1. Started Cheese 3.22.1 with startup notifications enabled (manually enabled from desktop file) from a desktop file.
 2. No spinning cursor at all.

Failed.

[Test Case 2]

 0. Started cpulimit to limit the execution to 10% of the total CPU power.
 1. Started Cheese 3.22.1 with startup notifications enabled (manually enabled from desktop file) from a desktop file.
 2. No spinning cursor at all.

Failed.

[Test Case 3]

 1. Started IDLE 3.5.3 with startup notifications enabled (default) from a desktop file.
 2. The spinning cursor appears only on the window and lasts for many seconds. The application has been started and the user can already work... but the cursor keeps spinning.

Failed?

[...many other tests with similar results, sometimes it works, other times does not]

I do not know where the problem is (changelog says the issue was closed...) but I cannot say that the startup notification is correctly supported.

Still, I am grateful for your efforts.

Regards,
Lorenzo

Fix confirmed to work on both Trusty and Xenial. Thank you very much.

Marking as such. Thanks.

This bug was fixed in the package openbox - 3.6.1-1ubuntu2.1

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openbox (3.6.1-1ubuntu2.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Add libxcursor-dev to build dependencies to make Application Startup
    Notifications work properly. (LP: #1336521)

 -- Simon Quigley <email address hidden> Sun, 21 Jan 2018 18:27:00 -0600

The verification of the Stable Release Update for openbox has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package openbox - 3.5.2-6ubuntu0.1

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openbox (3.5.2-6ubuntu0.1) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Add libxcursor-dev to build dependencies to make Application Startup
    Notifications work properly. (LP: #1336521)

 -- Simon Quigley <email address hidden> Sun, 21 Jan 2018 17:43:27 -0600