So, I just observed that my "/usr/lib/notification-daemon-1.0/notification-daemon" was throwing this error.<div><br></div><div><div><font color="#ffffff" style="background-color:rgb(153,153,153)">(notification-daemon:13210): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Error on line 1: Entity did not end with a semicolon; most likely you used an ampersand character without intending to start an entity - escape ampersand as &amp;</font></div> <div><br></div>So, I just had to replace </div><div><span style="color:rgb(101,55,156);white-space:pre-wrap">alert = pynotify.Notification("Hi", "Bye & Pye")</span></div><div>with </div><div><span style="color:rgb(101,55,156);white-space:pre-wrap">alert = pynotify.Notification("Hi", "Bye &amp; Pye")</span></div> <div><font color="#65379c"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">@Gilles Which version of notification-daemon are you using?</span></div><div><font color="#65379c"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br> </span></font><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Gilles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gilles.quenot@gmail.com">gilles.quenot@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div><div class="h5"> On 30/01/2012 19:15, Abhijeet Rastogi wrote: </div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"> <div style="margin-bottom:2em"> <pre style="font-size:medium;width:50em"><span>Hi,</span></pre> <pre style="font-size:medium;width:50em">I just discovered a bug that I would like to discuss.</pre> <pre style="font-size:medium;width:50em"><span style="color:rgb(101,55,156);white-space:pre-wrap">>>> import pynotify</span></pre> <pre style="font-size:medium;white-space:pre-wrap;width:50em"><span style="color:rgb(101,55,156);white-space:pre-wrap">>>> pynotify.init("Demo")</span> True <span style="color:rgb(101,55,156);white-space:pre-wrap">>>> alert = pynotify.Notification("Hi", "Bye & Pye") >>> alert.show()</span> True <span style="color:rgb(101,55,156);white-space:pre-wrap">>>> </span> The corresponding notification: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/qzb8j.png" style="color:rgb(102,51,102)" target="_blank">http://i.imgur.com/qzb8j.png</a> First, I thought that it's related to python module so I checked using the libnotify library in c instead. So, I executed this program. <a href="http://sprunge.us/NAgO" style="color:rgb(102,51,102)" target="_blank">http://sprunge.us/NAgO</a> with command: ./a.out "Heading" "Body & notification" Got the same result. No body if I have & in body. notification-daemon 0.7.3 dbus-python 1.0.0 Please inform if you need something more.</pre> </div> -- <br> Regards,<br> Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi)<br> <a href="https://plus.google.com/107316377741966576356/" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/107316377741966576356/</a><br> <br> <br> <fieldset></fieldset> <br> </div></div><pre>_______________________________________________ galago-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:galago-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">galago-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/galago-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/galago-devel</a> </pre> </blockquote> Hi,<br> <br> see this video <a href="http://youtu.be/MdjvaYeI4Tg" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/MdjvaYeI4Tg</a><br> <br> Works well.<br> <br> I use archlinux x86_64<br> <br> ++<br> </div> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Regards,<br>Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi)<br><a href="https://plus.google.com/107316377741966576356/" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/107316377741966576356/</a><br> <br> </div>