How to hide/remove Rhythmbox Now playing pop-up/notification?

Question

Everytime a song is played on Rhythmbox from my playlist a pop-up on the upper-right side of the screen shows. How could I hide it?

score 55 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 23 '18 at 23:02

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The infamous popup you are referring to is the Ubuntu notification system.

You'll see that with a variety of applications - weather apps, empathy as well as plugging in external devices.

However if you specifically dont like rhythmbox displaying a notification about which song is playing, it is simple enough to disable it.

From the rhythmbox global menu choose Edit-Plugins or Tools > Plugins, scroll down and deselect Notification

N.B. The global menu can be revealed by hovering your mouse at the top of the screen over the top of the panel which is called the menubar.

edited Jan 23 '18 at 23:02

Kzqai

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answered Aug 26 '13 at 07:10

fossfreedom

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Any idea how to launch this dialog from the command line? I'm using i3 to avoid stuff like this. I'm surprised this got through when even some critical stuff I want like automounting usb drives doesn't... – Andrew Wagner Aug 12 '14 at 16:51
@AndrewWagner look at editing via "gsettings" the setting org.gnome.rhythmbox.plugins.active-plugins. You'll need to remove the notification plugin from the list. – fossfreedom Aug 12 '14 at 17:29
In 2018, ubuntu 16.04, I opened rhythmbox, went to Tools > Plugins, and disabled the plugin seen above. – Kzqai Jan 23 '18 at 22:04
Thanks, these notifications was really annoying – Agnius Vasiliauskas Feb 21 '19 at 18:15

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 19 '20 at 20:36

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Just had this problem myself and glad to find an answer.

On Ubuntu 20.04 I searched for Notifications and got the following...

When you click the RhythmBox choice you'll see a poup that lets you control things more specifically:

I turned off the Notification Popups and it solved the problem.

The note just means that if you look in the notifications area you will still see a notification of the current song that is playing. However, it won't popup on the screen any longer.

answered Oct 19 '20 at 20:36

raddevus

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This was a better solution than the accepted answer for me as when disabling just the notification plugin, a little "Next" notification still appeared between songs. This was in Mint 20.1 Ulyssa Xfce 4.14.2 edition. – Paul Feakins Apr 25 '22 at 13:20

score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 24 '15 at 15:07

Just to add to @fossfreedomg's comment: This is how I did it in Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty)

gsettings set org.gnome.rhythmbox.plugins active-plugins "['artsearch', 'audiocd', 'audioscrobbler', 'cd-recorder', 'daap', 'dbus-media-server', 'generic-player', 'ipod', 'iradio', 'mmkeys', 'mpris', 'mtpdevice', 'power-manager']"

You can list your current settings via:

gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.rhythmbox.plugins

How to hide/remove Rhythmbox Now playing pop-up/notification?

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