Hello everyone,
I installed fedora 38 with gnome 44. Then I installed sway as window manager and I would like to use dunst for my notifications. The problem is that I have an error and I have the impression that it is related to gnome.
The error:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not activate remote peer: startup job failed.
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to help ^^.
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GNOME already has a notification service, provided by GNOME Shell. You cannot use another.
But in this case, I’ve installed dunst but it’s not being used, I have the impression that no notification program is running given the error and it’s normal for gnome not to work because I don’t launch it when I’m on sway.
how can i use the gnome notification system on sway knowing that gnome is not running?
The only relation to GNOME is that the program that is trying to send a notification uses GIO’s D-Bus API.
The most likely reason is that the notification daemon (dunst) isn’t running.
But no, running a non-GNOME notification daemon in a non-GNOME environment isn’t a GNOME issue.
ok thanks for your answers.
I just have one last question about the themes. I’d like to change the background with a command line. I read about gsettings and tried this command:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri=‘file:///home/lebotdufutur/Images/wallepaper/view.png’
But it didn’t work 
Right, same reason. This is the command for setting the background in GNOME, but you are running sway instead.
No I was of course on gnome when I made this command
Then you are maybe using dark style?
no, I’m on the clear theme. Why won’t the dark theme work?
So you’re telling me that to change gnome’s wallpaper I have to be in dark mode?
No, I’m saying that the underlying setting is different in dark mode.
If gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme does not return “prefer-dark”, then picure-uri is the correct key. Otherwise picture-uri-dark is used.
Ok I understand better thank you but so it’s still strange that the command did not work when I was in light mode.
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