How to close notifications with the keyboard?

Question

my problem is that when I insert a drive (HDD partition, DVD etc.) a notification appears, which has a unlimited duration.

Clicking somewhere (except the options) will close this notification, but it is bothersome that I always have to use the mouse.

Is there a way to close these notifications with the keyboard or to set a duration?

When I mount a volume, I want nautilus to open it, which works by default. But these notifications still appear. I don't really mind them, but I'd like to be able to close them via keyboard. When inserting a DVD or something like that it is okay for them to appear, but when I just mount them the notifications are useless... So I'd at least like to also be able to close these notifications with the keyboard and not only with the mouse...

Gary · Answer 1 · 2012-04-13 03:43:15Z

I don't have an answer to closing it with the keyboard but if you edit the /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/autorunManager.js and change the line

this.setUrgency(MessageTray.Urgency.CRITICAL);

to

this.setUrgency(MessageTray.Urgency.NORMAL);

It will only pop up for a few seconds and then disappear. You will still have the Icon in the panel, it will just not bug you down below.

prasadkumar013 · Answer 2 · 2012-06-10 13:02:03Z

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Use Esc Key. It works for most of the pop-up dialogues:)

answered Jun 10 '12 at 13:02

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