I want to disable the notification area in gnome-shell because it causes alot of graphical glitches for my computer. I use tint2 for my system tray. Is there a way to do this?
2 Answers
I'm not sure what side effects, if any, this will have, but here's one way to do it:
sudo gedit /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/main.js
Find the following line (217 for me):
notificationDaemon = new NotificationDaemon.NotificationDaemon();
Comment it out:
//notificationDaemon = new NotificationDaemon.NotificationDaemon();
Save the file, press Alt-F2 and enter r
to reload GNOME Shell. The tray should now be gone
If you're using Gnome 3.2 then you might find something useful at http://extensions.gnome.org
such as
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/99/evial-status-icon-forerver/