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@rrt I just made you a maintainer of the package. Feel free to apply these changes yourself!

Thank you for this package! However, few things are missing:

1. python2-dbus is missing as dependency

$ notify-listener
/usr/bin/notify-listener:21: PyGIWarning: Notify was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('Notify', '0.7') before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded.
from gi.repository import Notify, GObject
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/notify-listener", line 25, in <module>
import dbus
ImportError: No module named dbus

After install, it worked with the same warning.

2. Update the instructions

The most important being number 5 without which no notifications arrived:
...
5. Start the listener int he background:
$ notify-listener &
...

Perhaps, copy-paste them from Github!

3. Suggestions

* I would rename the binary notify-listener to libnotify-irssi-listener in /usr/bin to avoid future name collisions.

* It seems quite useful to make a unit for systemctl that should be placed in .config/systemd/user/libnotify-irssi.service that would contain the below which would allow to start it with 'systemctl --user start irssi-libnotify' instead of a background task:

[Unit]
Description=Irssi-libnotify

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/notify-listener

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Cheers,
rrt

Done. Thanks for letting me know.

You should probably update this to use https://github.com/stickster/irssi-libnotify

@dakanya, how are you starting X?

please make sure you are completely up to date and have merged all your pacnews.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/General_Troubleshooting#Session_permissions

I'm trying to get this to work but this error has me stumped. I suspect it's something to do with systemd and dbus.

# Failed to open connection to "session" message bus: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11

daemons don't work right now, I am working on them