After 20 pop-ups that are not manually closed by clicking on them
notification-daemon stops showing pop-ups and returns the error:
error sender=:1.418 -> dest=:1.484 error_name=org.freedesktop.Notifications.MaxNotificationsExceeded rep string "Exceeded maximum number of notifications"

This error is generated in daemon.c at line 185.  I commented out the
entire if statement and notifications started showing as expected.

The items are only removed from the queue when the notification is
manually closed by nd-queue.c::on_notification_close().  I am not sure
what the purpose of limiting the queue was, but the items should also
be dequeued when the pop-ups time out (in
nd-queue.c::on_bubble_destroyed), otherwise the queue will grow
forever, using more and more memory.

severity 648378 important
thanks

Am 10.11.2011 21:31, schrieb Omen Wild:

Adjusting severity.

Dear Maintainer,


   * What led up to the situation?
More than 20 messages generated through notify-send. This is from a photo-
import script which keeps me informed of its progress by telling me each file
it's importing.
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

Ran the program as normal. This caused no problems on the Xubuntu installation
I have just replaced with Debian. After 20 files had been imported, the script
failed with the following message:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.Notifications.MaxNotificationsExceeded: Exceeded
maximum number of notifications at /home/tony/bin/camera line 29

   * What was the outcome of this action?

Script crashed and I was unable to proceed until I'd edited it to remove the
notify-send lines.
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Script should have continued normally to completion.

I noticed afterwards that the notification area in my panel had kept all of the
messages that had been sent; I can't understand why this should be the case for
what should have been transient messages.  Especially as there's no such
problem in a near-identical Ubuntu installation.

Dear Maintainer,

Update: removing notification-daemon and instead installing the xfce4-notifyd
daemon instead has fixed this for me.

I wonder if the problem may in fact be due to the interaction between
notification-daemon and the XFCE notification area, rather than a bug in
notification-daemon?

Hi Tony and Omen,

[about https://bugs.debian.org/648378]

If you feel like it, I suggest you report this bug upstream, where it
is more likely to get more attention :)

Cheers,
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