notifications doesn't work

[sheinz]

Hi, thanks for the awesome project!

I have an issue with notifications.
I checked that notifications works on my machine.
I investigated why they are not called by ncTelegram and discovered that conditions for them aren't met:

# notif on hl
if 'text' in msg and 'username' in self.Telegram_ui.me and \
        self.Telegram_ui.me['username'] != None and\
        "@" + self.Telegram_ui.me['username'] in msg['text']:
    self.Telegram_ui.display_notif(msg)

Can you suggest what to check next?

[Nanoseb]

Hi,
What kind of notifications were you expecting? here it notifies you only when your username is mentionned (preceded by a "@"). Also you have to have a username defined (that is not the case by default).

[sheinz]

I was expecting a pop-up notification when I receive a message and ncTelegram is not focused. Now thinking about it, I'm not sure if it even possible for a terminal application to track a focus.
Thanks for the explanation about preceding "@". It wasn't obvious :)
But It would be nice to have some kind of notification for a common (not muted) messages.
As an option it can send a terminal 'bell'. So, the windows in tmux (in my case) would be highlighted.

[Nanoseb]

Yes, nctelegram can't know if it is in focus or not that's why I couldn't do that. But sending a bell is a really good idea, I don't know why I didn't think about it earlier.
(at the moment I have a script that gets the terminal title and triggers an 'urgent' state when a new message arrives, the bell is definitely a better solution ;) )

[15bitgames]

I was wondering how you would get dunst to work ncTelegram? It has a thing its configuration for the applications like the following:

[signed_off]                                                                      
    appname = Pidgin                                                              
    summary = *signed off*                                                        
    urgency = low   

Just not sure how to integrate it into dunst (I do have libnotify installed).

[Nanoseb]

@z1lt0id: apparently notifications in python now need python-gobject. It should work fine without any configuration on dunst side with this package.

Thanks for reporting this, I'm going to update the readme (and thanks for the discovery as well, I'll use dunst form now on ;) ).

[15bitgames]

@Nanoseb Did you ever get notifications to work? Or have you some wonderful hack and if so I can you share :)