Hay up, well am am working through it. Yea it did take 5 minutes to test the pop-ups, and yes they work fine, but while im here on a new account i decided to see if it would also fix my other long-standing problems which will take several weeks to know the answer to. (Sleep on lid close is not suspending system)
Also since i have now mostly created a clean new account i thought i might as well go all the way but without just copying a backup of my old ~/ dir. I shall wait to see if my “sleep fails with firefox” is fixed and then i shall start moving across all my folders one at a time. Iv got a lot of other stuff to get working first though like my printer that took ages to get right last time and then my LAN and the NAS that i mount and do borg backups.
So basically yes the notification pop-ups work, who knows exactly what the problem was/is on my old account but i want to see if i can fix other things given this opportunity.