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[Nicholas Mati <tothenthpower@xxxxxxxxx>]

So... after ~6.5 years; 267 posts; and several thousand lines of
unhappy, frustrated, and/or annoyed feedback, my man page is still lying
to me about -t  actually doing something and the devs are now adding
"you can use someone else's software or write your own" to justify their
design decision. Did I miss something?

I was going to shake my head in disgust and quietly move to another
notification daemon until I saw the last few posts discussing how many
people are annoyed by this issue. I would like to add myself to the
statistic of "very unhappy, but would normally not comment on this bug
report."

Side note:
Since other operating systems were brought up in the last post, I would like to note that Windows 10 (and presumably Vista through 8.1) at least have a global configuration option for their notification timeout duration.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390508

Title:
  notifyOSD ignores the expire timeout parameter

Status in Ayatana Design:
  New
Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Invalid
Status in Message Web:
  New
Status in notify-osd package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in notify-osd package in Arch Linux:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: libnotify-bin

  adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 9.04
  Release:	9.04
  adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ 

  adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ apt-cache policy libnotify-bin
  libnotify-bin:
    Installed: 0.4.5-0ubuntu1
    Candidate: 0.4.5-0ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 0.4.5-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ 

  adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ cat notify-send.c | grep expire_timeout
  	static glong expire_timeout = NOTIFY_EXPIRES_DEFAULT;
  		{ "expire-time", 't', 0,G_OPTION_ARG_INT, &expire_timeout,
  	notify_notification_set_timeout(notify, expire_timeout);
  adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$

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