Notifications Using Notify-OSD and Dbus

I am writing a quick script to show a Notify-OSD bubble whenever I switch songs in MPD. The easiest way I can think of doing this is to make an MPD controller in Python that uses pynotify to show the bubble. This works, but the problem comes whenever I try to change songs quickly. Notify-osd shows the first bubble for several seconds, then the next for severals seconds, and so on. This is obviously not the desired functionality: I want the notifications to update immediately on song change.
Luckily, pynotify has an "update" ability which does exactly what I want. Unfortunately, it requires a Python object handle to the notification. This handle dies after the python program exits, so this method won't work unless I have my python controller sit in the background and watch for keypresses, which I don't want to do.
I know notify-osd can use dbus, and I have been able to send a message to it through Dbus, but I can't find sufficient documentation to be able to use notify-osd's "update" feature. Without it, I get the message pileup described above.
Does anyone know of notify-osd documentation specifically regarding Dbus, or have a better way to do this in general?

Never mind, I have been able to hack together a solution. For those interested, I use python's Pyro module to start a server that serves up a pynotify object. Meanwhile, I have another script that runs on a keypress. This script connects to the Pyro server, accesses the object, and updates the info. Not pretty, but it is fast and does what I want it to.

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Last edited by TFB (2011-01-15 00:34:13)

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Stupid question: are you sure that the window name of the notification is "Notification" ?
Have you checked with xwininfo ?
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joacoej wrote:
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