Do you have the 'play' command mentioned at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2#matchmaking-notifications-on-linux?

EDIT: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues/1291#issuecomment-41067436 is relevant to this issue report.

Ah i forgot there was a github for dota2. I dont have these command. Would either work or do i require both.

@cjwijtmans from what I can tell, play is in use now, aplay will be used in a near-future update.

I emerged the sox package i will check if it works.

i have play and it doesnt work. so i geuss i require notify-send.

I found sw-notify-send package but it adds the command sw-notify-send and notify-send is not there.

'emerge libnotify' should do the trick (I assume gentoo since you wrote 'emerged..').
There should be symlink on /usr/bin/notify-send onto your preffered implementation:

$ realpath`which notify-send`
/usr/bin/libnotify-notify-send

But afaik propper symlink is not necesarry, since libnotify is bundled in with steam runtime (you still probably gonna need libnotify in system and WM with dbus USE flag if it uses custom notification display).

I was told that valve devs will use their inhouse notification daemon "match-ready", we shall see if it's gonna be of any use (probably built on top of SDL library so it would support pulse/alsa/other sound drivers).

i have KDE, so i am good on dbus. i will try emerging libnotify. but from what you just said i dont think its going to work.

nope still not working.

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On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Tomáš Pružina [email protected]:

'emerge libnotify' should do the trick (I assume gentoo since you wrote
'emerged..').
There should be symlink on /usr/bin/notify-send onto your preffered
implementation:

$ realpathwhich notify-send
/usr/bin/libnotify-notify-send

But afaik propper symlink is not necesarry, since libnotify is bundled in
with steam runtime (you still probably gonna need libnotify in system and
WM with dbus USE flag if it uses custom notification display).

I was told that valve devs will use their inhouse notification daemon
"match-ready", we shall see if it's gonna be of any use (probably built on
top of SDL library so it would support pulse/alsa/other sound drivers).

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You are going to need to either restart or reload your dbus daemon and steam for this to work.

Also: does "notify-send message" print buble saying "message"??

notify-send message does nothing... i will try to get this to work and come back.

Any update for the new patch? Both sound and notification now works (for me at least).
No sox required.

It seems to work now. I will try removing sox and see if it works. If that
works i will try removing libnotify and see if it still works.

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On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Tomáš Pružina [email protected]:

Any update for the new patch? Both sound and notification now works (for
me at least).
No sox required.

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Yes, this was fixed in the recent update.