How do I disable application notification popups?

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I hate these popups at the top of the screen.

I can't see how to turn them off. As you can see, the notification settings seems to indicate they are turned off.

How do I get rid of them? I believe it's NotifyOSD, but I'm not sure. I don't want to remove other notifications (e.g. for screen brightness changes).

I tried this from a similar question:

$> sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.disabled
mv: cannot stat '/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service': No such file or directory

The notification daemon merely displays the content that applications tell it to display. You must stop notifications at the sending application. — user535733, Mar 24 '17 at 12:07
There are many such applications. Are you seriously telling me there is no global switch? — spraff, Mar 24 '17 at 12:08
You are welcome to patch the NotifyOSD code to contribute such a switch. Or to file bugs against the offending applications that spam irrelevant information to you, so those developers can reduce the notifications. — user535733, Mar 24 '17 at 12:11
Possible duplicate of How to disable system tray notifications in 14.04? — Delorean, Mar 24 '17 at 13:48
You can disable, or even uninstall it, like stated here, but you may also lose your volume and brightness level popup. — Delorean, Mar 24 '17 at 13:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 13 '18 at 04:50

It appears that there is an gnome extension for disabling the notification popups that you might give a whirl.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1007/window-is-ready-notification-remover/

The source code for it is here:

https://github.com/nunofarruca/WindowIsReady_Remover

How do I disable application notification popups?

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