Native notifications on Linux not working

[RatanRSur]

Description

I went to brave://flags and enabled native notifications but I still see the chromium styles ones.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Get a notification, such as a brave ad

Actual result:

Chromium styled notification

Expected result:

My custom styled notifications using
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dunst

Reproduces how often:

Every time

Brave version (brave://version info)

0.69.135 Chromium: 77.0.3865.120 (Official Build) unknown (64-bit)

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release?
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel?
• Can you reproduce this issue with the dev channel?
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel?

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards?
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?

Miscellaneous Information:

If I remember correctly the experimental flag worked in a previous version but not anymore. I can't remember which version that was unfortunately

[fmarier]

0.69.135 Chromium: 77.0.3865.120 (Official Build) unknown (64-bit)

I don't see anything about "native notifications" in brave://flags if I search for "notif" in 0.70, the current stable Brave version.

I have however been running Brave Ads with dunst without any problems since it launched a few months ago, without doing anything special configuration-wise. So I'm not sure what's different between your machine and mine other than the distro (Ubuntu 18.04 v. Arch).

Can you take a screenshot of the notifications you see in Brave 0.70?

Is dunst running (try pgrep dunst)?

[RatanRSur]

I definitely had it in one of the recent versions! But yes, it's not in the options any longer. dunst is running but if the option for native notifications was removed then it's not surprising it doesn't work. Could that be added back as an experimental feature?

[fmarier]

I'm not sure exactly what we would add because it's working fine for me using default options:

[bsclifton]

@RatanRSur if it's not showing in brave://flags, there may not be a straight-forward way to toggle the flag (it may have been removed with Chromium 78)

[RatanRSur]

I can't repro this in chromium :/ The native notifications work fine there.

[rebron]

cc: @jsecretan @tmancey

[tmancey]

@rebron I am investigating and will update when I found out more information. Thanks

[mcamou]

I'm seeing this same problem on 1.1.23 Chromium: 79.0.3945.88 (Official Build) (64-bit). I do see the "Enable native notifications" flag and have it enabled.

[elcrec]

I do not experience this problem - dunst notifications work for all kind of websites: slack, whatsapp etc.

$ uname -r
5.4.11-arch1-1

$ brave --version
Brave Browser 79.1.2.42 unknown

$ pacman -Qi brave
Targets         : brave-browser
Name            : brave-bin
Version         : 1:1.2.42-2
Description     : Web browser that blocks ads and trackers by default (binary release).
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://brave.com/download
Build Date      : Di 14 Jan 2020 21:41:57 CET

$ pacman -Qi dunst
Name            : dunst
Version         : 1.4.1-1
Description     : Customizable and lightweight notification-daemon
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://dunst-project.org/
Provides        : notification-daemon
Build Date      : Sa 06 Jul 2019 21:30:40 CEST

I did have to change the flag "Enable native notifications" from Default to Enabled and restart brave.

[mcamou]

In my case, I'm running KDE Plasma 5.17.5 on top of Ubuntu 19.10 (not Kubuntu, a normal Ubuntu with apt install plasma-desktop). All Chrome notifications (WhatsApp, GMail, Slack, etc) show up as Chrome notifications instead of KDE notifications.

[tmancey]

Brave Ads support Chrome notifications which do not support KDE. Closing issue as #9592 will resolve this issue.

[wackbyte]

I'm using sway and mako on Arch Linux and this recently started happening. Never mind, it magically started working again.

[BachoSeven]

I use dunst and experienced the following Issue on Arch Linux, Brave Nightly build: without native notifications enabled, I was seeing ads notifications from dunst but was not able to click them; with the native notifications flag, I was able to see and click notifications.

[fmarier]

I was seeing ads notifications from dunst but was not able to click them

To click on ads from dunst, I use the following (default?) key binding: Ctrl+Shift+.

[BachoSeven]

Yea that one was not working and still doesn't, however, Middle click also triggers the action by default, and that one is now working.