ERC notifications not working correctly on OS X

[gunnarhelgason]

I've enabled the erc layer in .spacemacs and installed the terminal-notifier gem. However, instead of receiving notifications I get the following error in emacs: error in process filter: peculiar error: "Emacs not compiled with dbus support"

If I add (require 'erc-terminal-notifier) to my .spacemacs, the notifications are delivered to the OS X notification center, but the dbus error persists.

The documentation for the erc layer does not specify that you have to do anything special (other than installing terminal-notifier) to get notifications to work on OS X. Is this a bug, or have I misunderstood something? I assume that at least the dbus error is a bug as dbus isn't available on OS X AFAIK.

[CestDiego]

Sorry cannot reproduce ;_; don't have osx. :3 maybe one of the osx users can help.

[cmccloud]

I was having a similar error. I don't make use of notifications in my own erc configuration, but the error seems to be coming from this block of code:

      (defun erc-global-notify (match-type nick message)
        "Notify when a message is recieved."
        (notifications-notify
         :title nick
         :body message
         :app-icon "/home/io/.emacs.d/assets/spacemacs.svg"
         :urgency 'low))

      (add-hook 'erc-text-matched-hook 'erc-global-notify)

notifications-notify requires d-bus.
I fixed it by adding the following line to my post-erc configuration:

(remove-hook 'erc-text-matched-hook 'erc-global-notify)

@gunnarhelgason if you try this out and it works for you let me know and I'll look into making a change to the erc package layer to only add that hook if it detects dbus support.

[asheshambasta]

@cmccloud sorry if this is a stale issue and I'm bringing it up again – but I can still reproduce this even with

(remove-hook 'erc-text-matched-hook 'erc-global-notify)

At the end of my init file.

[Miciah]

Are you on macOS? What do you get if you open the eval prompt (M-:) and enter (bound-and-true-p dbus-compiled-version)?

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