Nylas-mail: Broken notifications on Ubuntu 16.04?

[orschiro]

Dear all,

I also reported the issue on AskUbuntu: Electron apps no longer show notify-osd notifications on Ubuntu 16.04.

Basically what has happened since my upgrade from Ubuntu 15.10 to 16.04 is that N1 notifications are no longer shown using notify-osd but with a default popup dialog box:

Can someone confirm this issue to help me clarify whether this is a general problem and where it stems from?

Thankfully,

~Robert

[ardhipoetra]

Ubuntu 16.04 user here, also suffering from the same issue

[orschiro]

Dear @ardhipoetra,

Thanks for confirming that!

Do you have any idea whether it's an Electron, N1 or Ubuntu issue?

~Robert

[bengotow]

It sounds like this is what you're after: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/465. Quite an active issue over there!

[AngelMunoz]

just to be sure :) same here @bengotow thanks for pointing that out!

[orschiro]

Dear @bengotow,

Thanks! Have you seen this comment?

@philippgerard I'm just going to reiterate. Just because it is fixed here (upstream) doesn't mean that the individual apps that use electron have updated to a version of electron that has the fix....

So, N1 needs to use the updated Electron?

~Robert

[CrazyLemon]

Workaround https://github.com/nylas/N1/issues/1897#issuecomment-212327030
Works like a charm and you don't need to wait for anyone to update anything :)

[bengotow]

Thanks @orschiro — looks like we've updated Electron on our side, so this should be resolved in the next update to N1 (due out this week.) Cheers!

[orschiro]

Thank you @bengotow!

@CrazyLemon,

What does creating that file exactly do?

Thankfully,

~Robert

[CrazyLemon]

@orschiro Well doesn't do much - its a file :)..its something that electron checks if it exists is my guess and if it exits then electron knows its on unity desktop.
Some explanation here https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/465#issuecomment-209049069

[orschiro]

@CrazyLemon,

And it actually does bring back notify-osd notifications.

How great! :)

~Robert

[bengotow]

Hey—a fix for this issue shipped in 0.4.32. You can grab the update from the Releases page, and it should hit the auto-updaters today. Feel free to re-open if you still have trouble!