No notifications for missed calls or messages

I've yet to see any notifications for missed calls or incoming text messages, despite having several.

I'm not sure if the notifications are never displayed, or if they just didn't persist.

They should probably persist until explicitly discarded from the notification area, or the messages app is focused. Ideally persisting across boots as well.

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I just received a message (for 2FA) and there was no notification at all.

Works for me:

Chatty doesn't send notifications when the conversation is active, maybe that's what you're seeing? chatty!529 (merged) should help then.

I'll update if I see it start working. But that last message created a new conversation, so it's not possible that it was active.

I think Chats may have been the last focused app, but the phone screen was locked. The text message arrived, but the screen did not turn on or indicate any notification. When I unlocked the phone, the message was there in Chats.

I also received 4 text messages in the preceding 2 days, and was completely unaware of them until I opened Chats today.

When a new conversation was created in Chatty, it may have made itself active. Anyway, I've just merged that MR (I thought it was already merged but wasn't), it should help with at least that particular case.

I can confirm that notifications are working when a conversation already exists, but not when the conversation is new (even if there is no window open).

I haven't seen any updates come through to the phone yet, so I can't verify if your fix works or not yet.

I'm still having this issue, has the fix been released yet?

I don't think so since there weren't any chatty releases since some time but let's move the bug there since it seems to me the shell is not at fault.

Ah..just noticed it's closed already due to the MR being merged in chatty. @mohammed.sadiq this is one issue that affects current users and would benefit from a chatty release.

@sambull note also that notifications can be enabled/disabled on a per chat basis (see chat details) - can you verify these are on for conversation you lack notifications from (i don't think that's the issue but just to be sure).

It's only on new conversations, so there would not be any setting to change. i.e. I can easily reproduce this with:

1. Delete the chat from my bank notifications.
2. Login to bank, triggering 2FA message.
3. An unread message is shown in Chats, but no notification is shown.

Thanks for explaining how to reproduce. It's fixed with chatty!632 (merged)

I'm not sure if the notifications are never displayed, or if they just didn't persist.

not a shell thing until ther's evidence the app sends out the notification via DBus and the shell ignores it.

closed

Right, is Chatty still responsible for notifications when it's closed? Or is there some other daemon that I should register against?

if you close the window chatty should stays running in the background and it still handles incoming messages.

OK, does it start in the background on startup though?

If not, then that probably explains my problem.

Yes, it does.

@sambull it does. You can check with ps or gnome-usage.

mentioned in commit mohammed.sadiq/chatty@b5f2fc70

mentioned in merge request chatty!632 (merged)

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mentioned in commit Librem5/debs/pkg-chatty@1ce711c7