problem with (notifications-notify :body "<test>")

problem with (notifications-notify :body "<test>")

[Peter Münster]

Hi,

When I call
   
    (notifications-notify :body "<test>")

the notification pop-up is empty, no body-text.

How could I solve this problem please?

TIA,
-- 
           Peter

Re: problem with (notifications-notify :body "<test>")

[Tassilo Horn]

Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> writes:

Hi Peter,

> When I call
>    
>     (notifications-notify :body "<test>")
>
> the notification pop-up is empty, no body-text.

When I do the same, the <test> body is there.  Possibly, the difference
is the notification service we're using.  I'm on GNOME3.

BTW, I've just noticed that

  % notify-send "" "<test>"

in a terminal just says

  No summary specified.

and no notification appears.  So probably the summary is kind of a
mandatory field, and your notification daemon is strict with that while
the GNOME Shell isn't.

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: problem with (notifications-notify :body "<test>")

[Michael Albinus]

Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> writes:

> Hi,

Hi Peter,

> When I call
>    
>     (notifications-notify :body "<test>")
>
> the notification pop-up is empty, no body-text.
>
> How could I solve this problem please?

IIRC, for some notification daemons a non-empty title is mandatory. You
might try:

(notifications-notify :title " " :body "test")

Note, that notification daemons might also support markups in the body,
like "<b>bold text</b>" etc. I wouldn't use tags in the body, if not
intended for formatting.

> TIA,

Best regards, Michael.

Re: problem with (notifications-notify :body "<test>")

[Peter Münster]

On Tue, Nov 06 2012, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> When I do the same, the <test> body is there.  Possibly, the difference
> is the notification service we're using.  I'm on GNOME3.

Hi,

Indeed. I forgot to test with the command line tool. So this has nothing
to do with emacs. Sorry for the noise.

-- 
           Peter

Re: problem with (notifications-notify :body "<test>")

[Peter Münster]

On Tue, Nov 06 2012, Michael Albinus wrote:

> (notifications-notify :title " " :body "test")

`(notifications-notify :body "test")' works too.
The problem is the "<".


> Note, that notification daemons might also support markups in the body,
> like "<b>bold text</b>" etc. I wouldn't use tags in the body, if not
> intended for formatting.

Thanks, now I understand the reason for that behaviour. At first glance
it seemed quite strange to me, because even with `:body "bla < bla"'
the body was empty...

-- 
           Peter

Re: problem with (notifications-notify :body "<test>")

[Michael Albinus]

Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> writes:

> Thanks, now I understand the reason for that behaviour. At first glance
> it seemed quite strange to me, because even with `:body "bla < bla"'
> the body was empty...

If you need special characters, you might use html quoting, like
"bla &lt; bla".

(Maybe this should be explained in the docstring).

Best regards, Michael.

Re: problem with (notifications-notify :body "<test>")

[Xavier Maillard]

> 
>> `(notifications-notify :body "test")' works too.
> The problem is the "<".

Ony my girlfriend's computer, it does work with "<".

Her computer uses XFCE on a slackware GNU/linux system.

	Xavier
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Re: problem with (notifications-notify :body "<test>")

[Michael Albinus]

Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im> writes:

>>> `(notifications-notify :body "test")' works too.
>> The problem is the "<".
>
> Ony my girlfriend's computer, it does work with "<".

It depends on the capabilities of the notifications daemon. If it
doesn't support :body-markup, it is likely to accept "<".

See `notifications-get-capabilities'.

> 	Xavier

Best regards, Michael.