I have a dual-monitor setup. Notifications always appear on the top-right of the right side monitor. This is a bit annoying for the same reasons discussed in this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1452066 If I go to XFCE Settings Manager / Notifications and try changing the theme or default position it has no effect. All notification bubbles still appear in the top-right of the right side monitor, and in the same theme. Using notify-send and pidgin notifications to test.
If xfnotifyd running on
(In reply to comment #1) > If xfnotifyd running on /usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd says "Another notification xndaemon is already running" /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd is running So is the problem that notify-osd is getting started instead of xfce4-notifyd?
Yes, you are not running xfce4-notifyd hence its settings dialog has no effect. If you have several notifications daemons installed there is no way to predict which one will be used (DBUS magic), I would say you need to remove notify-osd.
Ok I have filed a bug on launchpad suggesting that either the "dbus magic" needs to be fixed, or the packages notify-osd and xfce4-notifyd should be set to conflict https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/984230
Does this mean that it is not possible to have both Gnome and XFCE installed on the same system?
(and have both working correctly)
I now see it is possible to just remove the notify-osd package. Hopefully it does not break anything in gnome. It would avoid duplicate bug reports in the future if xfce could check, either on logon or when the user runs xfce4-notifyd-config, that xfce4-notifyd-config is running, and warn the user if it isn't.