Hello,
It's my first post on the forum so I wasn't sure where to post it and sorry for my bad english, I'm italian
I set up a light htpc and one feature I really need is the audio volume pop-up notification. The volume OSD initially didn't show up at all while the brightness indicator worked as expected, but I finally managed to make it work by installing xfce4-volumed (I really don't know why since from what I know my system uses notify osd for pop-up notifications).
The problem now is that the pop-up wouldn't appear over a full screen application, which is where I actually need it: I need a visual feedback of volume level when I adjust it while I'm watching a movie most of the times (eg. kodi, netflix, vlc, youtube at full screen). The other problem is that the notifications last too much (10 sec) so I tried to install a modified version of notify osd with the configuration tool as suggested here and set the duration to 1 second, now the brightness indicator works good as always and does as expected, but the audio volume one gives me problems here too: after 1 sec it blinks and kind of starts again, then after another 1 sec blinks again and stops after an additional 1 sec, during 3 sec total and giving two distracting blinks in the meantime.
Now: I assume that my volume level on screen notification is somehow corrupted (the blink part that doesn't apply to brightness too gave that idea) so I'd like your help to find a way and check if and where the problem lies (eg conflicting apps, damaged program files). As for fullscreen I read that the developers messed a bit with notify-osd over full screen because some people didn't want notifications over full-screen so they decided to only show critical notifications over full-screen (but from what I understand brightness, volume and battery are considered critical, and even brightness doesn't show over full-screen, so I hope there is some hidden parameter to tweak to force notifications to be shown over full-screen).
If you even have any obvious clue to help me solve these problems please tell me since I'm very new to linux, and if you think it's impossible to fix those things on notify-osd or you don't have a clue please suggest me some alternative to notify-osd that gives me automatic (I said automatic because if I have to click on it to make it show, it's not what I'm looking for, I need it while I'm on full screen) on-screen notifications whenever I hit a volume key to change it and works on full screen, I tried installing volnoti but I wasn't able to make it work. So again, if you can help me with installing volnoti please do, if you don't, you now know what kind of feature I'm looking for, so please help.
Thank you
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