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[bobbee]

You didn't post apt list | grep dunst

If you have dunst installed, the weird blue notification theme will remain!

Also, I didn't know if you were able to change the theme and it works.

$ apt list | grep dunst

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

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$ apt list | grep dunst

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

dunst-dbgsym/mx 1.4.1-1~mx19+1 amd64
dunst-dbgsym/mx 1.4.1-1~mx19+1 i386
dunst/stable,now 1.3.2-1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
dunst/stable 1.3.2-1 i386

I thought I had both, they look so similar.

I was not able to change the theme of the notifier, Unless it requires a restart which I did not do.

Does that mean if I do an Apt uninstall dunst, it wourld work?

I don't know what these are.

[agnivo007]

Yes, dunst is overtaking your xfce notify preferences and themes. It comes with i3 window manager generally, dunno where you picked it from. Uninstalling dunst will return xfce functionality to normal.

sudo apt purge dunst

[bobbee]

Yes, dunst is overtaking your xfce notify preferences and themes. It comes with i3 window manager generally, dunno where you picked it from. Uninstalling dunst will return xfce functionality to normal.

sudo apt purge dunst

But do I need it for anything else?

What else does it do... it must have some sort of purpose?

[JayM]

A web search is your friend: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=dunst+ ... 1-1&ia=web

From https://dunst-project.org/:

Dunst is a lightweight replacement for the notification daemons provided by most desktop environments. It’s very customizable, isn’t dependent on any toolkits, and therefore fits into those window manager centric setups we all love to customize to perfection.

It's available in MX Package Installer, Stable Repo but isn't preinstalled, so you must have installed it yourself, or you installed something else that also installed dunst as a dependency.

[JmaCWQ]

...although the corners are sqaured off, whereas the corners are rounded off on the ones on my standard MX XFCE desktop...

That seems to vary, well it does on MX 18.3 anyway, sometimes it will have rounded corners and other times it will have squared off corners.
I'm not sure what triggers the different appearance.

Found it, it's something to do with transparency/compositing, I noticed it while unmounting external hard drives & USB sticks with compositing turned on and off, it also seems to effect the notification preview.
Transparency on, rounded corners.
Transparency off, squared corners.

Top one transparency on.
Bottom one transparency off.

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