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From: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: "peculiar" error with countdown timer in org-agenda
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 12:08:08 +0100
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 (Ian Garmaise's message of "Mon, 2 Mar 2020 17:38:42 -0500")
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To: Ian Garmaise <ian.g@phorixsol.com>
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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