Joe Henley

Hi Todd, I've gotten dragged away for a bit by "work" stuff, but am catching short windows to keep up. Soon I should be back to full engagement. Regarding Mint, yes I have seen those issues. I didn't have the first one because I created the autostart file myself (never saw/used the Auto Start functionvia ncid). The second one is odd; I've seen references to it but never experienced it. When I created the autostart file, the directory was already there for me to put it in. ...odd. When I was first...

Hi Todd, OK. But where is it? I looked in the .deb package for something like "auto start" and I looked in the man file for a parameter to include, but no luck. Could it have been left out of the Debian/Ubuntu/LinuxMint/et al package? Joe

Todd, OK. What are the steps John uses? FYI, if it matters, there's no "Click on the fillowing ncid menu item:: File->Auto Start->On only desktop notifications" that I'm aware of. However, there is a "StartUp Applications" menu where I can set command lines to be run. Let's see if it runs on my PC. Joe

John, I'm not sure if this will help or not.... When I set this all up, way back when, I noticed there was no ncid-alert.service file. All the other modules had corresponding service files. So I looked over the available modules and concluded ncid-notify was the most similar to ncid-alert. Ncid-notify also had a service file. So I copied the ncid-notify.service file to ncid-alert.service, modified ncid-alert.service "as required," and then enabled it in systemd. It worked OK -- well, maybe.... So...

John and Todd, Todd's point that I want only for ncid-alert to provide notifications is correct. I do use the ncidd call list, but not often. After John's and Todd's comments I did some digging in my kernel and system logs. What I found is that boot, log-in, and mate (gnome) are complete (all items have been started, almost all are complete) before ncid-alert is even started. Please be gentle in your interpretation....I am not terribly experienced in reading/analyzing these logs. It looks to me like...

Todd, Q1: Yes, I auto-login as root to Maxwell. Q2: I don't really care. All incoming calls are listed in the server (which generally runs 24/7) logs. If for some reason I haven't had the client on for awhile, I just check the server call log to see if there's anything I missed of interest. Also, I don't understand the question re "executing ncid-alert at boot time vs. user login time". Since I auto-login, to me boot and user login are pretty much the same. Am I missing something here? Thanks for...

Todd, Attached is test4.tar which contains the files generated by the actions above, ... plus a few. My notes are in "Joes.notes". Looks like alot of progress. Great! Thanks for your help! Joe

Hi Todd, All the stuff you requested is in the attached test3.tar. It did continue to double notify, so the issue is still present. Let me know what you need next. As always, thanks for your help! Joe