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clifford jnr

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Registered: 2014-01-18

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[Solved] xfce4-notifyd preview error

hi ive asked the same on the debian forum but nothing so far

i've installed debian from netinstall and then xfce4 and the extras i wanted.

everything is hunky dory apart from an error i recieve when trying to preview notifications.

Failed to execute child process "notify-send" (No such file or directory)

i've had a search and cant find anything.

anyone got any ideas?

thanks.

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: [Solved] xfce4-notifyd preview error

Failed to execute child process "notify-send" (No such file or directory)

Is notify-send installed? Should be in a package called libnotify (or maybe its libnotify-bin).

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clifford jnr

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Registered: 2014-01-18

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] xfce4-notifyd preview error

ah thank you for that my problem is solved. i checked early for send-notify and libnotify4 was installed however libnotify-bin wasnt and its done the trick. cheers.