From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Does org-nofity uses dbus? Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:45:08 -0400 Message-ID: <87h9clcgvf.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34317) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFlHj-00083F-6b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:45:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFlHf-0007ec-Gg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:45:50 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58279) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFlHf-0007eJ-9L for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:45:47 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bFlH9-0005C4-Ru for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 18:45:15 +0200 Received: from nat-pool-bos-t.redhat.com ([66.187.233.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 18:45:15 +0200 Received: from ndokos by nat-pool-bos-t.redhat.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 18:45:15 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Xi Shen writes: > Well~that's good news. But I think dbus requires X11 to work. But in Cygwin environment, people usually > do not configure a full X11 environment. > I don't think that's true: dbus is "just" a message bus - an IPC mechanism that different processes use to communicate. It has nothing to do with X11 or any other windowing protocol. The dbus-daemon manual page says: The systemwide daemon is largely used for broadcasting system events, such as changes to the printer queue, or adding/removing devices. The per-session daemon is used for various interprocess communication among desktop applications (however, it is not tied to X or the GUI in any way). What makes you think that it requires X11? > Besides, for org-notify, could dbus help it playing a notification sound on Windows? Or popup a > notification message? > Sure it could: you send a message on the dbus saying "play a sound" and some other process listening on the dbus gets the message and plays a sound. > So what I am thinking is to get some Windows native behavior for org-notify on Windows/Cygwin > environment. > Bad idea imo. > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:25 PM Fabrice Popineau wrote: > > Le 21 juin 2016 16:14, "Xi Shen" a écrit : > > > > Yeah...getting dbus to work on Windows will be hard. > > Actually, not so much. Dbus does work on windows. It doesn't work right now on emacs. I'm looking > into it. > > Fabrice > > -- > > Thanks, > David S. > -- Nick