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There was a tool to configure notifications in earlier versions of Ubuntu as described here. I tried to install it in Ubuntu 12.04 too but I failed.
I want to have the notifications dynamically located (e.g. notifications for music player and volume control will be shown at the same place) and to reduce the notification duration.
How do I change settings of notifications?
There is no official way of modifying the notifications, but many changes can be made to the notifications bubbles by installing a 3rd party patch which allows various changes to be made. More details are available here: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/closable-movable-notifyosd.html
To install:
Open a terminal window and enter these commands one by one:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:leolik/leolik
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin
pkill notify-osd
This installs a patched version of the notify-osd package. Then you will need to install the GUI configuration tool, to do this enter these commands one by one into a terminal window:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install notifyosdconfig
To use the congfiguration tool type "notify" into the dash and launch the NotifyOSD Configuration application.
Modifying the Notifications
The tool also includes other customisations including:
Changing the position
To change the location that the notification appears you need to open a terminal and enter the following:
gsettings set com.canonical.notify-osd gravity #
the # in the above code should be replaced by a number between 1-6 depending on where you want the notification to appear (3 doesn't seem to work for me though):
1 - top-right corner
2 - middle-right
3 - bottom-right corner
4 - bottom-left corner
5 - middle-left
6 - top-left corner
I could not install notifyosdconfig using the PPA on my Ubuntu 15.04, but i got it working by doing the following:
sudo apt-get install bzr libqt4-dev
bzr branch lp:notifyconf
cd notifyconf
make
./notifyosdconf
Which does not fully install it (you won't be able to find it in the dash) but it does work.
In case anyone might come to this question sometime with a Lubuntu distro (or any other of the 'Buntu flavors), please note that things might be quite different there.
On Lubuntu, the best and quickest way is to use xfce4-notifyd-config; however, there is no way to have the notification dialog appear anywhere in the top center; merely the four corners are supported. But for those that don't need more, this will be sufficient by far to get the notification dialog out of the way when something else has been placed there and would constantly interfere resp. overlap.
xfce4-notifyd-config settings do not have any effect, it could be because Ubuntu's notify-osd is also installed – then, it will show the notifications, not xfce-notifyd. To fix this: sudo apt-get remove notify-osd and sudo killall notify-osd.
In my tool there are 3 Checkbox options at the end of Bubble tab which is not shown in previous answer's image, these options worked for me, I'll suggest U recheck the procedure of installation of this tool.
