How to disable Nautilus popup on Ubuntu 20.04?

Question

On Ubuntu 20.04, Nautilus shows pop-ups when a copy is finished, or when a file is deleted ("undo"). However, the pop-ups are annoying because they cover the files underneath for quite a while.

How to disable all the pop-ups completely?
How to selectively disable only the "undo" pop-up, keeping the other pop-ups active?

I tried to follow this procedure (for Ubuntu 18.04), How to remove the "Undo" popup when deleting a file in Nautilus but in Ubuntu 20.04 the ~/.themes folder does not exist.

~/.themes/ is one of the possible folders where your theme are. Check other ones, e.g. /usr/share/themes/, ~/.local/share/themes/. — pomsky, May 22 '20 at 17:59

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited May 25 '20 at 08:21

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Checked in /usr/share/themes/;
Found Yaru-dark (theme currently in use, double checked on GNOME Tweaks);
Opened in folder in Terminal (right click on the folder);
Ran
```
sudo gedit gtk.css
```

added the line

.app-notification { padding: 0; margin: -80px 0 0 0; opacity: 0;}

at the end

Saved file, closed, refreshed the theme by using GNOME Tweaks;

Now all pop-ups are off.

edited May 25 '20 at 08:21

pomsky

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answered May 24 '20 at 14:13

Federico

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This is temporary solution as files in /usr/share/themes may be overwritten on next package update. Consider to use local copy in ~/.themes/ or ~/.local/share/themes/ as pomsky suggests. – N0rbert May 24 '20 at 15:46
In a slightly unrelated note, it's a bad practice to run GUI applications with sudo, at least use the -H flag. – pomsky May 25 '20 at 08:23

How to disable Nautilus popup on Ubuntu 20.04?

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