This feature allows server side applications to send system notifications (aka notifications bubbles) to the client.
It is supported on all platforms and controlled by the notifications
configuration option.
- MS Windows use system bubbles - you may need to configure your system to show the xpra system tray icon and / or the bubbles
- MacOS clients use a custom GTK window since there was no system API until OSX 10.8.x (this should be replaced with native code at some point)
- posix clients can use
python-notify
orpython-dbus
(the exact name of the packages required vary)
Please refer to the notifications
subsystem.
Debugging
- start both the client and server with the debug command line flags:
-d notify,dbus
- you can also test notifications forwarding using the dbus interface or xpra control, ie:
will send the message to all clients.
xpra control :100 send-notification "hello" "world" "*"