Re: [Banshee-List] 'notify-sharp' window pops up on song change?

[Alexander Kojevnikov <alexander kojevnikov com>]

2009/5/21 hpm <hpm313 gmail com>:
>
> Hi there!
>
> I compiled the current Banshee version from source to install a patch (add
> genre browser). Except for specifying --disable-ipod I didn't make any
> changes to the configuration.
>
> Now, whenever one song finishes and another song starts a dialog window with
> the title 'notify-sharp' pops up. It says "Now playing / *track* / *artist*"
> and I can choose between 'Skip this item', 'Cancel' and 'Ok'.
> The message does not pop up when I manually select another song in the
> library, but only when I use the previous/next button or when Banshee
> automatically goes to the next song after one song has finished.
> I always get notifications through the Ubuntu notification system, even when
> I manually select a song. (Not sure if that's related).
>
> I would like to get rid of the 'notify-sharp' window, as it is quite
> annoying and has no use for me.
> I did not have the window popping up when I used the official Banshee
> package before. It's only since I compiled myself.
>
> How can I switch of the notifications?
>

This is because you have notify-sharp installed and banshee picks it
up instead of the (fixed) copy it comes with. See
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572601 (and
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580064 for a work-around)