How to disable "Mouse battery low" notification in Ubuntu 20.04

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How to disable "Mouse battery low" notification in Ubuntu 20.04? This notification is spam and pops up all the time and does not go away until you close it. It covers a portion of the screen that is important. It breaks up the flow of work and greatly diminishes work efficiency.

There needs to be a solution for this problem. It is a Problem. A Big Problem.

Not being able to turn of this notification is not acceptable.

My mouse can run on "dead" batteries until they fail completely, which takes months. There are leds on the side of the mouse that show the battery level. When it gets very low, it goes down several leds and then, finally, the final led turns from green to red. At that point, I can still continue for about a month. I use all the batteries from other devices around the house/work that get too low to operate and use them in the mouse, to do my part of save the landfills. — Víðarr Kerr, Dec 13 '20 at 19:29
There are TWO Ubuntu twenties versions: 20.04 and 20.10. If you think the difference is so great it will hamper my quest for a solution, you shouldn't even comment, especially such a useless comment. — Víðarr Kerr, Dec 13 '20 at 19:32
Seems related/duplicate to this an this questions and this gnome-settings-daemon bug — Pablo Bianchi, May 25 '21 at 07:50

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 25 '21 at 07:53

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This is probably happening because your mouse is entering and exiting it's sleep mode.

You can turn off this notification by going into Settings -> Notifications -> Power and adjusting these settings. You can turn them off completely or just turn off the notification popups. If you have a UPS this might also turn off those notifications too, but I am not 100% sure since I haven't tested it.

I also found this YouTube video describing the steps I explained above.

If you are of the hacker type you can try somethings like this:

https://wrgms.com/disable-mouse-battery-low-spam-notification/

edited May 25 '21 at 07:53

Pablo Bianchi

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answered Dec 09 '20 at 10:47

Dennis Fazekas

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I tried and thought one of the solutions worked, but it did not. Thanks! – Víðarr Kerr Dec 17 '20 at 13:10
This doesn't work in Ubuntu 20.10. I disabled both Power and Solaar notifications, and they still keep coming. – Chaim Eliyah Mar 10 '21 at 22:40

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 25 '21 at 07:42

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The most logical solution I've found is to lower the Power Plugins Critical Level warning. This way you can decide when the system will warn you about low battery levels.

Warning:
This will affect all low-battery messages, not just the ones for your mouse.

You will want to get dconf-editor and configure when the system will warn you about low power levels:

open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T)
run sudo apt install dconf-tools
open the application and go to Org ⇢ Gnome ⇢ Settings Daemon ⇢ Plugins ⇢ Power
Change the "Percentage Low" setting to something that works better for you, such as 5%

Keep in mind that this affects all low-battery messages. So, if you're using a notebook and you're away from a power outlet, you may not see the message until it's too late.

edited May 25 '21 at 07:42

Pablo Bianchi

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answered Dec 08 '20 at 16:02

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Matigo,Thanks I did try all of that before posting and nothing changes the battery popup. It just refuses to stop. I used the dconf-editor and turned off everything that said notification and battery, just to see and nope, the notification just keeps on popping up. Maybe for people that have a single monitor and watch YouTube videos all day it isn't a problem. I have four, large, 4k panels open and typically about 10+ applications running. I'm trying to work and this popup box is just relentless. I have to move the cursor a Meter, yes, a physical meter (1.00 M) to close that box sometimes. – Víðarr Kerr Dec 13 '20 at 19:20
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I meant to say thank you very much at the end there, but ran out of characters. lol. Thank You Very Much! – Víðarr Kerr Dec 13 '20 at 19:23

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