Hi all,

Due to some unavoidable circumstances (UEFI, GPT enabled hardware) I have installed ubuntu first and then installed Kubuntu-desktop on top of that. I am a KDE guy and use KDE by default. I am noticing that on my KDE desktop, all the notifications triggered by KDE apps like Ktimer, Ktorrent etc. have a look and feel of Ubuntu (Gnome3/Unity). I would like to have default KDE notifications. How can I get them back?

In my system tray I have no GNOME application with the exception of Dropbox. When I right click it and open Dropbox folder, it opens it up with a filemanager called "Files" (never heard of it).

For example, the plasmoid called "timer" gives a notification as shown in the screenshot below.

http://i.imgur.com/HnjbMOS.jpg

This is the kind of pop over notifications which Ubuntu gives for all of its applications. Ubuntu usually pops these notifications on the top right hand corner.

I am on:
KDE 4.10.5, Kubuntu 13.04

$Uname -a
Linux COMP 3.8.0-27-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 9 00:17:05 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Both the packages kde-runtime and libknotifyconfig4 packages are installed. Knotify4 is also running as can be seen from below.

kamesh@COMP:~$ ps -A |grep knotify
2175 ? 00:00:01 knotify4

I don't see a notifications widget in your system tray, is it hidden? if not add it using system tray settings

You are right. The Notifications widget is hidden. Also, the "Application notifications" and "File transfers and jobs" are ticked in the notifiations settings. Any more ideas on what could be wrong?

no real idea, is the issue the color, location or style? strange but timer does not provide me a notification

- if you drag the notification to where you want it, it should stay there
- try removing the dropbox widget and restart KDE (just something to try)
- using Ksysguard are there any Gnome, GTK or Unity processes running

"files" is probably just Unity's nomenclature for Nautilus (or maybe whatever is the default file manager)

Looks like I am getting somewhere

removing of Dropbox widget did change the notification style. Now the notification resemble KDE3 and not KDE4. Notifications also do not seem to come from the Notifications widget in System tray.

See http://i.imgur.com/s0gGuFm.png

Since, I installed ubuntu first and then later installed kubuntu-desktop on top of it, as soon as I login I am presented with GDM login manager (is it called that now?). The choose KDE plasma desktop from there and login into my KDE system. While at GDM login manager, it displays some notifications about my wireless connectivity and stuff. Could it be possible that it is carrying them over to KDE desktop or something?

drag the notification to the system tray, all further notifications should then be placed there

no experience with the Ubuntu/Unity login screen but my understanding is they that use LightDM not GDM, is KDM available in the software center - switching should answer that question

drag the notification to the system tray, all further notifications should then be placed there

That is the problem. It cannot be dragged. I know how a KDE4 notification looks like and I have a stong feeling that this is not the one. It looks like from KDE3 era.

BTW, I have now changed the default lightdm greeter to KDE now. So I now have a KDE login screen when the system boots up.

2 things to attempt:
- remove then add back the notifications system tray widget
- test as a new user

removing and adding the notification system tray widget does not have any effect. The notifications still look the same. I mean like this http://i.imgur.com/s0gGuFm.png

Also, for a new user created just for test purposes right now, the problem is the same.

Some more symptoms:
1) If I right click and click on Activities, I get a blank panel with no activities in it. Although I have three activities. One of them active and the other two not active.
2) Right click and click on "Add widgets" and then "Get new widgets" does not open anything. A very small box sort of thing opens. http://i.imgur.com/w6KyCbS.jpg

I have noticed both of the above behavior in the new user account as well. Any more thoughts.

I've no more thoughts, sorry

Google'ing and searching bugzilla shows nothing similar to your empty activities panel

Maybe a bad install? reinstall all plasma, activities and kdebase related packages?

Odd, have you tried purging unity and all gnome remnants? Not sure if this is even possible as I haven't used Ubuntu or any of its derivatives for many a moon...

is there anything interesting in ~/.config/autostart ?

There is nothing in .config/autostart. It is empty now.

toad@ for the time being, I would like to keep Ubuntu side-by-side until the following bug is sorted out with Kubuntu. Also, the problem now is the KDE3 like notifications apearing rather than KDE4. Ubuntu notifications are not visible since I removed dropbox from the sytemtray area.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1178294

I am not sure where can I ask for help when my problem cannot be solved on KDE forums.

Try right clicking on the System Tray itself (preferrably a neutral area - such as the "Hidden Icons" arrow) and select "Configure System Tray". In "Display" make sure "Notifications" is checked under "Extra Items". You should also ensure that it is marked as "Always Visible" in "Entries" after applying the previous change.