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notify-osd and dual monitors

I have two monitors setup currently however when I get a new notification (ie popup for new mail, or im) it fades in on the secondary monitor and fades out on the secondary monitor.

Is there any way to change it so that the notification alerts appear on the primary not secondary monitor?

I'm using a ATI card if that even makes a difference :)

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To make the notification work properly on the primary monitor. You may need to update the scema-key notifyosd under com.canonical

Open a terminal and use the command below:

gsettings set com.canonical.notify-osd multihead-mode "focus-follow"

or alternatively, if you have dconf-tools installed then :-

  • Open dconf-editor and

  • Navigate to appsnotify-osdmultihead-mode and change the value to focus-follow.

    By setting this you can make the notification bubble appear on the display which currently has focus.

To have dconf-editor, use command sudo apt-get install dconf-tools in a terminal or click the link here → dconf-tools Install dconf-tools.

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  • Can you make it just appear in a specific monitor rather than focus follow? Also is there docs for this setting anywhere? Aug 31, 2012 at 12:45
  • Unfortunatley this doesn't appear to work :| error is sudo gsettings set com.canonical.notify-osd multihead_mode "focus-follow" No such key 'multihead_mode' Aug 31, 2012 at 12:50
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    Check this launchpad bug and see comment #13
    – devav2
    Aug 31, 2012 at 12:59
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    Your problem is that the key is called multihead-mode not multihead_mode. I don't think schemas use underscore characters
    – Ian B.
    Aug 31, 2012 at 14:19
  • This appears to be working now, its still a bit buggy (the notification overlaps the status bar unlike in single monitor mode), but I'm hoping that will be solved over time. I also used dconf instead of gconf (since gconf doesn't show the key). Aug 31, 2012 at 14:44

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