How can I customize/disable notification bubbles?

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Is there a way you can disable or customize the notification bubbles on Lucid?

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N.B. With rhythmbox's notifications on which songs are playing, disable the Notification plugin. — Wilf, Apr 05 '15 at 11:47

score 22 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 22 '13 at 00:41

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Yes you can, using a tool called Notify OSD Configuration.

If you want to disable them rename the file
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service:

sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service{,.disabled}

To re-enable:

sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service{.disabled,}

You need to restart your computer after either one of these changes for them to take effect.

edited Sep 22 '13 at 00:41

ulidtko

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answered Nov 16 '10 at 06:19

Isaiah

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This tool presume that you patch your original notify ost libraries, and you cannot disable them. I wouldn't recommend this. – OpenNingia Nov 16 '10 at 12:46
@OpenNingia, using a patched NotifyOSD is necessary because the default doesn't allow any configuration. Edited my answer to show how to disable them entirely. – Isaiah Nov 16 '10 at 18:04
This didn't work for me on Ubuntu 12.04. I executed your first command and then promptly received a notification seconds later from Spotify. – Kamil Slowikowski May 30 '14 at 02:11
@KamilSlowikowski , you may need to reboot – Ace Nov 06 '14 at 00:14
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wooow, I'm not sure if that worked, but that syntax you're using in mv will change my life forever. – Andrew Wagner Aug 19 '15 at 13:52
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Restarting the computer is never the correct way to activate, enable, shut down or disable a service on Linux. – Teekin Mar 18 '18 at 22:13
@Teekin unless systemd gets wedged as PID 1 – user57082 Feb 09 '20 at 17:46

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered May 02 '12 at 17:28

To alter these settings, install gconf-editor from the software-center.

Scroll to / ▸ apps ▸ nm-applet and check disable-connected-notifications and disable-disconnected-notifications settings there. Check the attached image for clarifications.

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As For the VLC, you need to visit VLC Preferences (Press Ctrl + P, or access it from tools Menu)

And Disable SysTray Popup when Minimized (Hover the move over that option and read the descripton)

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I was searching how to turn them off in vlc. Thanks! – s3v3n Apr 24 '14 at 10:09 — s3v3n, Apr 24 '14 at 10:09

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 16 '10 at 10:29

You can also turn off particular notification.To turn off pidgin notification,Open pidgin-->Tools--->Plugins

Uncheck libnotify popups there..

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To turn off notify-osd notifications,type the following in terminal and restart your system.

sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.disabled

To disable rythmbox song pop up notification:

Go to:

Edit -> Plugins

and uncheck the Status Icon plugin.

Another way:

Edit --> Plugins

Select Status Icon, click the configure button

Choose the never shown option for notifications.

Thanks. However, the one piece of software I would really want to disable notifications for is Banshee, but there doesn't seem to be any options for that at all, unless I'm really missing something. — Mussnoon, Nov 18 '10 at 16:07

score 4 · Answer 4 · edited Oct 18 '15 at 11:04

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You can stop song change popup notification form this

Open Rhythmbox see in Menu: Edit -> Plagins (open it)
Uncheck Notification plugin

edited Oct 18 '15 at 11:04

DJCrashdummy

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answered Oct 18 '15 at 10:52

Rakesh

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score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

The question

How to turn off the pop up notification in 12.04?

was redirected here but this question's context is framed for lucid 10.04 which uses notification-daemon and not Pangolin 12.04 which uses notify-osd (On Screen Display) to make pop-up bubbles.

This can be seen in the 12.04 system file (NB 10.04 predates this):

view-source:file:///usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service

with notifying content uniquely specific to either the Unity or Gnome default interface:

[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
Exec=/bin/sh -c 'if
     [ ! -x /usr/lib/notification-daemon/notification-daemon ] ||
     [ "$GDMSESSION" = guest-restricted ] ||
     [ "$GDMSESSION" = gnome-classic-guest-restricted ]
     [ "$GDMSESSION" = default -a
          "$(basename `readlink /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager`)" =
                gnome-session ] ||
     [ "$GDMSESSION" = ubuntu ] ||
     [ "$GDMSESSION" = ubuntu-2d ];
  then exec /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd;
  else exec /usr/lib/notification-daemon/notification-daemon; fi'

What follows is explicitly for the 12.04 redirected question.

The complete stack of pending notifications can be disabled and cleared using a terminal window
(Ctrl+Alt+T) and entering

killall notify-osd

after which notifications resume.

To disable for an arbitrary length of time use:

dbus-monitor "interface='org.freedesktop.Notifications'" |             \
grep --line-buffered "member=Notify"                     |             \
sed -u -e  's/.*/killall notify-osd/g'                   |             \
bash

This crude solution can be stopped by closing the terminal window or typing Ctrl+C.

Change "member=Notify" to customize the desired selection of notifications for purging.

For more control see:
Can org.freedesktop.Notifications.CloseNotification(uint id) be triggered and invoked via DBus?

Other techniques are documented in the references.

ref.:

score 1 · Answer 6 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

This script toggles the notify-osd notifications: (inspired by https://askubuntu.com/a/35840/17940)

$ cat toggle-notify.sh

# Disable libnotify notification bubbles that appear in the top-right corner
# of your screen. Works on Ubuntu 12.04.
disabled=$HOME/notify-osd-disabled
if [ -e $disabled ]
then
  echo "Enabled notify-osd"
  sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd
  rm -f $disabled
else
  echo "Disabled notify-osd"
  sudo chmod -x /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd
  killall notify-osd 2>/dev/null
  touch $disabled
fi

It works on:

Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 14.04

Make it executable and run it:

$ chmod +x toggle-notify.sh

$ ./toggle-notify.sh 
Disabled notify-osd

Keyboard shortcut

You can bind a keyboard shortcut to this script:

$ mkdir ~/bin
$ mv toggle-notify.sh ~/bin
$ export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 16 '10 at 06:23

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To disable the Notification bubbles you can remove the 'Notification Area' item from the panel. Just right click on the notification area item and select 'Remove From Panel'.

UPDATE: The Notification Area will be no more from Ubuntu 11.04

answered Nov 16 '10 at 06:23

aneeshep

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I don't want to get rid of the notification area entirely, but only the bubbles. – Mussnoon Nov 16 '10 at 06:31

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 31 '13 at 18:27

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go to package manager and remove pop-up notification ;; it will auto install another that the system needs .BUT will not show a pop-up window when a new song comes on . did this to mine mint 16 mate.

answered Dec 31 '13 at 18:27

ubuntuer

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Alex · Answer 9 · 2016-01-22T13:15:49.897

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I have tried all of the methods listed here, and none worked in Fedora 18. Eventually I found something that worked (copy-pasted from http://www.superuser.com/questions/543064/how-to-disable-all-gnome-3-notifications):

I have several systems from which I don't want update or other messages. I would prefer to just check logs.

Unless you want to go into each program (i.e. Network settings » Disable Notifications), yet still get system messages, you could:

su -
chmod 000 /usr/libexec/notification-daemon
reboot

This should work on most GNOME3 systems to kill all messages.

Hope it saves someone hours of searching.

edited Jan 22 '16 at 13:15

answered Jan 20 '16 at 19:21

Alex

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why Fedora on AskUbuntu? Why Fedora18, when it is EOL? – Jakuje Jan 20 '16 at 22:02
I found no thread on the internet asking this question for anything outside of Ubuntu, other than the one I referenced. I think the same behavior should occur on other versions of Fedora also; I just put 18 because that's what I have. – Alex Jan 22 '16 at 21:24

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