Yeah...getting dbus to work on Windows will be hard. Maybe we should consider using some other ways to display a notification on Windows.

E.g. On Windows/Cygwin environment, org-notify should use a command line tool to show a notification in the Windows notification area.

But I wonder how to deploy this command line tool with Emacs system...any suggestions/ideas?

Thanks,

David

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 4:45 PM Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@supelec.fr> wrote:

2016-06-21 8:31 GMT+02:00 Xi Shen <davidshen84@gmail.com>:
Hi,

I got below error after I called (org-notify-start). It seems the dbus-error happens very close to the task notification. I wonder if org-notify uses dbus.

Error: (dbus-error "No connection to bus" :session)
Warning: notification for "Go to dental in 30 mins." behind schedule!
Error: (dbus-error "No connection to bus" :session) [2 times]
Warning: notification for "Go to dental in 30 mins." behind schedule!
Error: (dbus-error "No connection to bus" :session) [2 times]

I am using Emacs on Windows, and there's no dbus on Windows...

It seems so, yes: org-notify calls notifications-notify from the emacs notifications.el library.
Clearly, notifications.el relies on dbus.

However, if you are using Mingw64, there is a dbus package which should provide
what is needed. Unfortunately, I tried it and can't tell yet how to configure it or if it
even works.

Fabrice