Notifications do not show about com.valvesoftware.steam HOT 21 CLOSED

Ugh, Of course Valve would call binaries from the host instead of making portable games, why would I expect anything better out of them...

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@TingPing What's your opinion, should we add notify-send to app or just label this game issue?

Seems harmless to add it.

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Steam doesn't use native notifications, it just draws its own windows and works as expected IME. (Flatpak doesn't filter x11 usage, so it can draw anything it wants)

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It strikes me a bit odd though libnotify would be per-app instead of in runtime

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@nanonyme libnotify isn't a good library (the entire API is blocking..) and GLib contains a notification implementation most apps should use.

Anyway not relevant because again Steam doesn't use the notification interface it draws its own popups.

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You're totally right, Steam's notifications do work (for some reason they didn't show up yesterday, but they do now). But still, Dota 2's native notification doesn't show up, which is quite annoying and means you can't really tab out while waiting. They definitely work with regular Steam.

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So dota 2 itself actually uses native notifications? Test: flatpak run --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications com.valvesoftware.Steam

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That makes no difference. Dota 2 uses notify-send, probably needs to be added? The logs aren't really helpful, but that's my guess.

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@TingPing What's your opinion, should we add notify-send to app or just label this game issue?

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Please retest with next update

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Tested that notify-send works but left app by default not allowed to send notifications. Instructions on enabling notifications added to https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/wiki/Frequently-asked-questions

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Ah that explains why this didn't work when I tried it earlier. But the command doesn't work either:

$ sudo flatpak override --talk=org.freedesktop.Notifications com.valvesoftware.Steam
error: Unknown option --talk=org.freedesktop.Notifications

Running Fedora 28 Atomic Workstation.

Also, can't notifications be allowed by default?

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Works with --talk-name I guess that's what you meant?

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Yes. The enabling is now sufficient as libnotify was bundled. Notifications themselves are a controversial feature and not everyone wants to allow Steam to send them. End user can now easily select which way they want it to work

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But Steam's own notifications are always shown, this only affects games, and most games don't even use notifications. For Dota 2, I'm sure everyone will want them, because otherwise you can't tab out while waiting for a game. IMO it would be more user friendly to allow people to opt out instead of having to opt in to notifications.

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Afaik --no-talk-name kind of functionality doesn't even exist in Flatpak so it can only work this way with overrides

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(Also posted this in #1678 ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux)

I still have this issue on Linux.

OS: Ubuntu 18.04.2 64-bit.
Hardware: Ryzen 7-1700, RX 580 (8GB), 32 GB DDR4 RAM
Using the default drivers in Ubuntu (AMDGPU-PRO)

Steam API: v018
Steam package versions: 1550534751
NOT running steam beta

running steam with flatpak:

flatpak run --env=LC_ALL=C com.valvesoftware.Steam
flatpak run --env=LC_NUMERIC=C com.valvesoftware.Steam

The MD5 checksum of libsteamnetworkingsockets.so is fc7417c468b9b816cc8a9ebbdde5eb2e

I have tried solutions posted elsewhere such as going to CSGO properties > LOCAL FILES > Verify Integrity of Game Files. 1 file fails the test and is downloaded. This doesn't solve the issue.

This problem occurs with any configuration of the firewall (UFW). Currently is set to deny in and allow out.

Another piece of information is that this occurs randomly (I had been able to play in multiplayer for the last few weeks and suddenly couldn't).

This problem persists even if I launch steam without launching any other application, and no application running in the background except those that run in a vanilla Ubuntu install.

I don't have any skins installed, and this problem persists if I reinstall steam.

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@andres-jurado But this isn't about notifications, I think you commented on the wrong issue.

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@jgillich my bad, sorry!

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This is not actually solved as libnotify (and therefore notify-send) is not currently built in modules.yml.
I'm sending a PR for this.

Additionally, with --no-talk-name=NAME having being introduced in flatpak, I'd suggest defaulting to --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications instead, but I'll open a separate issue discussing this.

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I am having the same issue

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