Re: PGP popups are b0rken on ssh tunnel usage.

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

On 2018.09.28 11:30, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Am 28.09.18 14:41 schrieb(en) Mario Mikočević:
> > steps
> > - login on pc-A
> > - start X server
> > - start ssh from pc-A to pc-B with X11 tunneling
> > - start balsa on pc-B
> > - open *ANY* email with PGP signature
> >         -> balsa window frozen
> >         -> ssh window gets *text* *popup*
>
> What exactly do do mean with “popup” - a real dialogue, of the  
> desktop notification bubble?
>
> As I don't have two machines, I cannot reproduce this scenario  
> completely.  However, I ran a VM, then logged into the host machine  
> via ssh -X, and ran balsa (current git master).  The window appears  
> on the VM guest's X11, but the desktop notification bubble /still/  
> appears on the hosts' X11 screen.
>
> I can only guess that in your case there is no X server running on  
> PC-B, which “somehow” blocks the propagation of the notification.   
> Peter recently migrated notifications to  
> g_application_send_notification(), so my build may actually behave  
> differently than yours, though.
>
> > All other popups work as expected (new email, filters, properties,  
> > etc ..)
>
> The notification bubble about new messages /also/ appears on the  
> wrong (host, not guest) X11 screen for me.  There is nothing special  
> about gpg notifications, btw. – they use that same primitives as  
> *all* other Balsa notifications.
>
> To me this looks as if the desktop notifications are broken when ssh  
> tunneling is involved (but this may be a false positive as I'm using  
> a vm).  Anyone out there with more insight (or two boxes for testing)?
>
> Best,
> Albrecht.
OK, I fixed by gpg configuration.  I had an "=" instead of a " " (equal  
instead of space) for a line in dirmngr.conf.  Now I see a difference  
between running locally and over X/ssh.  Locally, I see a popup in the  
upper right of the screen with things like "Detected a good signature  
with insufficient validity/trust."  When running over X/ssh I see no  
such message anywhere.  No popups, not on the console.  I think the  
"(balsa:3174): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: unable to send notifications  
through org.freedesktop.Notifications: Timeout was reached" might be a  
hint to what is missing.  I suspect some configuration difference gives  
me just that warning, but Mario gets some type of disruptive  
notification.

Again - let me know what else I can test, or what config we can compare.

Jack