Notifications shown as regular windows

3isenHeiM · January 8, 2026, 10:56am

The notification of my sys-audio are shown in dom0 as regular windows, see below

What do I miss in order to have them as regular windows ? I though the package qubes-notification-daemon would be enough… I double-checked and blueman is loaded with the DBusService plugin.

Talkabout · January 11, 2026, 9:08pm

Hi guys,

I do have the same issue:

I am using I3 as my window manager.

@3isenHeiM you can disable the Blueman plugin StatusNotifierItem, then the number of those windows will decrease (at least it did on my end), but sometimes still a window is shown…

tanky0u · January 14, 2026, 1:52pm

My bluetooth/blueman-manager’s notifications arrive like the above
screenshots as well. Why? I thought there was a QubesOS notification
proxy stuff with version 4.3?

Atrate · January 14, 2026, 8:17pm

I believe the fault lies with blueman itself and its weird way of generating notifications. May be useful to check upstream (the blueman repos) for issues with such notifications.

marcos-morar · January 15, 2026, 8:39am

The issue was not present in 4.2, it only happens in 4.3.

Whatever caused blueman to behave like this must be related to qubes-notification-daemon.

An issue was reported about this on github:

github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues

sys-usb displays persistent dialog for Bluetooth connection success instead of transient notification

opened 02:22PM - 26 Dec 25 UTC

marcos-morar

P: default C: usb proxy needs diagnosis affects-4.3

### Qubes OS release Qubes OS 4.3 ### Brief summary In the sys-usb, when succ…essfully connecting a Bluetooth device (e.g., mouse or keyboard), a centered dialog box appears for the "connection successful" notification. This dialog has no buttons, does not auto-dismiss, and must be manually closed. ### Steps to reproduce 1. In sys-usb, use the Bluetooth manager (e.g., blueman or gnome-bluetooth) to pair and connect a Bluetooth device such as a mouse or keyboard. 2. Observe the notification upon successful connection. ### Expected behavior The Bluetooth connection success notification should appear as a standard transient popup notification that automatically disappear after a few seconds without requiring user intervention. ### Actual behavior A dialog box appears centered on the screen with the "connection successful" message. It has no buttons, does not dismiss automatically, and remains on screen indefinitely until manually closed.

Furthermore, it only happens on the first connection of a device after a restart. If the device is already in the Bluetooth manager’s list, the notification displays correctly.

3isenHeiM · January 20, 2026, 11:06am

I have this on every single notification by blueman…