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My Google calendar notifications keep popping up. Every single one of them. I have turned off Firefox notifications in the Settings menu. I tried this but there is no preference menu in my Ubuntu 20.4.

Example:

Example

Please, does anyone know how to turn off the calendar pop ups?

Kaigo
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User981636
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  • This notification is caused by the evolution-data-server package, but DO NOT TRY TO REMOVE IT! Both ubuntu-desktop and gdm3 depend on it and you will boot to a text shell the next time you reboot – Boltgolt Jan 06 '22 at 20:00
  • Note that this has nothing to do with Firefox notifications. – Flimm Nov 04 '22 at 09:04

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If you added online accounts, go to settings > Applications > calendar, then turn off notifications

Or you can go to settings > online accounts > google account the calendar option

Plasma
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You can suppress the ugly pop-up window – but keep the less obtrusive Gnome Shell notification – by setting /org/gnome/evolution-data-server/calendar/notify-with-tray in dconf.

I discovered this from a comment in a related evolution-data-server bug report (GNOME/evolution-data-server#60).

Option 1: Use dconf Editor

Install dconf Editor if it's not already installed:

sudo apt install dconf-editor

Launch dconf Editor:

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Navigate to /org/gnome/evolution-data-server/calendar and set notify-with-tray to "on":

dconf-notify-with-tray

Option 2: Use gsettings

Alternatively, a quicker way to turn this setting on is to issue following command in the terminal:

gsettings set org.gnome.evolution-data-server.calendar notify-with-tray true
wjandrea
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Arthur Blair
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Currently it's the way how evolution notification daemon is working. If u want to disable just reminders, but keep notifications you can do it by so:

  • Copy the file /etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop to your local .config/autostart folder.
  • Open the copy with a text editor, and change the line OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;XFCE;Dawati;MATE; to NotShowIn=GNOME;

Now keep in mind, that you can replace GNOME by any distro you're using.

You need to log out then back in for the change to take effect.

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Matej Bunček
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  • It would be nice to disable just the sound, as it makes an annoying alarm clock sound. – Kaigo Nov 25 '20 at 10:11
  • I think you need to log out and log in again for the changes to take effect. – Flimm Mar 04 '21 at 14:27
  • In Ubuntu 21.04, the instructions are the same, except you only need to add the line NotShowIn=GNOME. You don't need to delete the existing line as it doesn't exist any more. – Flimm Jun 08 '21 at 14:55
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Switch of the notifications of "Evolution Alarm Notify" without any need to open scripts or files just like so:

  1. Search for Notifications in Ubuntu's search bar (hit the windows key), which is a menu point of the Settings. It looks like

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  1. Click on "Evolution Alarm Notify", which looks like

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  1. Switch off as per your preferences.
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