On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What I find surprising here is that > > 1. I never get to see the text, no matter what I do > 2. 'open' doesn't open but removes > > Is this weird behaviour unique to my system, or is it just an area in > serious need of improvement in Gnome3? 1. Weirdness on your system. This is how it's supposed to look like: http://ompldr.org/vZ3owYw 2. "Open" is meant to close the notification and callback to the application that sent the notification (e.g. to open a window). Since notify-send doesn't support callbacks, it just closes the notification.