Hi Marco,

I will check.  However I am on Windows 7-64 and to the best of my knowledge
Dbus is not available for this platform.  There were some efforts to make
it work but I don't think they are current.
In any case, as the error message said, this version of emacs isn't
compiled with Dbus, which makes sense for a Windows version.
I will try to create my own handler and figure out why dbus notification is
being attempted on a version of Emacs compiled without it.

Best,

Ian



On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 6:08 AM Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> Thanks for reporting.
>
> > In Org-Agenda, I press ';' to start a countdown timer.
> > I enter 1 minute to test.
> > When timer reaches zero, I see this error in minibuffer
> >
> > dbus-call-method: peculiar error: "Emacs not compiled with dbus support"
> >
> > Also, timer display is not removed from mode-line as expected.
>
> I checked this some and I think the problem lies in function
> org-show-notification.  That function references and possibly uses
> function notifications-notify which depends on a proper setup of the
> dbus stuff.  I guess this is the gist of the bug.
>
> You can place your own handler though.  For this set variable
>
>     org-show-notification-handler
>
> to e.g. function
>
>    message
>
> Can you please try this out?
>
> About hunting the bug: possibly it would be good to add a check if the
> dbus system is up.  Can this be done easily?  Or add a further
> configuration item to indicate that the dbus system shall be used.
>
>
> Best,
> -- Marco
>
>
>

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