How to identify the notification daemon?

Question

I want to see which notification daemon is running. This is because I want to replace it, since it does not properly confirm the notification from blueman-applet.

I mention that I am running the i3 window manager.

Solution

I found out myself.

1. Trigger the notification again
2. Open a console, and run xwininfo to find out which process created the notification window.
3. Uninstall that application, and install a different one (such as notification-daemon or xfce4-notifyd)
4. Restart.

In my case the culprit was dunst, which did not show buttons to Confirm / Deny the Bluetooth pairing.

Edit: another answer seems to be more complete (showing you the mechanism of Unity notifications).

Comments

[Austin Hemmelgarn]

Nice solution, I would not have thought of this approach myself.

[danuker]

@AustinHemmelgarn Thanks; but I'm still hoping someone knows an even better solution

[Enlico]

@danuker, so have you found no way to use dunst and deal with confirm/deny buttons?

[danuker]

@EnricoMariaDeAngelis I didn't spend ANY time at all to figure out if buttons can be enabled. I don't remember installing it, and can't be bothered to learn and tinker with yet another basic tool. Perhaps they can be enabled, but I prefer a notification daemon which shows an interrogation's buttons by default.