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I installed pidgin when I upgraded to ubuntu 20.04, and realized immediately that notifications were not working properly and I could not close the buddy list without also closing the chat window.

When I went to check on the libnotify plugin, I realized it was no longer on the list, how can I add it again? I can't seem to find a download link to the standalone plugin anywhere.

metichi
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I was able to download the deb package for 18.04 from https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/pidgin-libnotify and I installed it into 20.04 with:

sudo apt install ./pidgin-libnotify_0.14-9ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Qole
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  • That worked for me, thank you very much! I could not find any other plugin package by Ubuntu that would provide that basic functionality, even after I installed pidgin-plugin-pack. Very disappointing that Ubuntu removed pidgin-libnotify but didn't package any alternative! – proski Nov 11 '20 at 00:48
  • Wasn't expecting an answer this late after six months but it sure worked like a charm! – metichi Nov 11 '20 at 13:21
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The libnotify plugin used to be bundled by the Ubuntu pidgin package (even though it is not part of pidgin), however there are other notification plugins (including a more-advanced libnotify++ plugin) on https://pidgin.im/plugins .

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  • but it does list libnotify as a depencency that's why I didn't install it yet – metichi May 08 '20 at 09:26
  • @metichi "it" being Pidgin or the libnotify++ plugin? – EionRobb May 10 '20 at 03:21
  • purple-libnotify+ , which is the plugin that shows up on the search when typing 'libnotify', lists libnotify as a dependency https://github.com/sardemff7/purple-libnotify-plus#purple-libnotify/ – metichi May 11 '20 at 10:15
  • @metichi yup thats correct, the libnotify+ plugin uses the libnotify system to display notifications, the same as the old libnotify (without a +) plugin (which also uses libnotify) that Ubuntu shipped with their Pidgin package – EionRobb May 11 '20 at 21:49