How can I customize/disable notification bubbles?

Question

Is there a way you can disable or customize the notification bubbles on Lucid?

Answer 1

I have tried all of the methods listed here, and none worked in Fedora 18. Eventually I found something that worked (copy-pasted from http://www.superuser.com/questions/543064/how-to-disable-all-gnome-3-notifications):

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I have several systems from which I don't want update or other messages. I would prefer to just check logs.

Unless you want to go into each program (i.e. Network settings » Disable Notifications), yet still get system messages, you could:

su -
chmod 000 /usr/libexec/notification-daemon
reboot

This should work on most GNOME3 systems to kill all messages.

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Hope it saves someone hours of searching.

Answer 2

You can stop song change popup notification form this

1. Open Rhythmbox see in Menu: Edit -> Plagins (open it)
2. Uncheck Notification plugin

Answer 3

This script toggles the notify-osd notifications: (inspired by https://askubuntu.com/a/35840/17940)

$ cat toggle-notify.sh

# Disable libnotify notification bubbles that appear in the top-right corner
# of your screen. Works on Ubuntu 12.04.
disabled=$HOME/notify-osd-disabled
if [ -e $disabled ]
then
  echo "Enabled notify-osd"
  sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd
  rm -f $disabled
else
  echo "Disabled notify-osd"
  sudo chmod -x /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd
  killall notify-osd 2>/dev/null
  touch $disabled
fi

It works on:

• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 14.04

Make it executable and run it:

$ chmod +x toggle-notify.sh

$ ./toggle-notify.sh 
Disabled notify-osd

Keyboard shortcut

You can bind a keyboard shortcut to this script:

$ mkdir ~/bin
$ mv toggle-notify.sh ~/bin
$ export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"

Answer 4

go to package manager and remove pop-up notification ;; it will auto install another that the system needs .BUT will not show a pop-up window when a new song comes on . did this to mine mint 16 mate.

Answer 5

The question

How to turn off the pop up notification in 12.04?

was redirected here but this question's context is framed for lucid 10.04 which uses notification-daemon and not Pangolin 12.04 which uses notify-osd (On Screen Display) to make pop-up bubbles.

This can be seen in the 12.04 system file (NB 10.04 predates this):

view-source:file:///usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service

with notifying content uniquely specific to either the Unity or Gnome default interface:

[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.Notifications
Exec=/bin/sh -c 'if
     [ ! -x /usr/lib/notification-daemon/notification-daemon ] ||
     [ "$GDMSESSION" = guest-restricted ] ||
     [ "$GDMSESSION" = gnome-classic-guest-restricted ]
     [ "$GDMSESSION" = default -a
          "$(basename `readlink /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager`)" =
                gnome-session ] ||
     [ "$GDMSESSION" = ubuntu ] ||
     [ "$GDMSESSION" = ubuntu-2d ];
  then exec /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd;
  else exec /usr/lib/notification-daemon/notification-daemon; fi'

What follows is explicitly for the 12.04 redirected question.

The complete stack of pending notifications can be disabled and cleared using a terminal window
(Ctrl+Alt+T) and entering

killall notify-osd

after which notifications resume.

To disable for an arbitrary length of time use:

dbus-monitor "interface='org.freedesktop.Notifications'" |             \
grep --line-buffered "member=Notify"                     |             \
sed -u -e  's/.*/killall notify-osd/g'                   |             \
bash

This crude solution can be stopped by closing the terminal window or typing Ctrl+C.

Change "member=Notify" to customize the desired selection of notifications for purging.

For more control see:
Can org.freedesktop.Notifications.CloseNotification(uint id) be triggered and invoked via DBus?

Other techniques are documented in the references.

ref.:

• How to disable notification from network-manager
• Is it possible to block NotifyOSD for one application?
• filter messages to "notification area" applet
• How can I customize/disable notification bubbles?

Answer 6

Yes you can, using a tool called Notify OSD Configuration.

If you want to disable them rename the file
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service:

sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service{,.disabled}

To re-enable:

sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service{.disabled,}

You need to restart your computer after either one of these changes for them to take effect.

Answer 7

To alter these settings, install gconf-editor from the software-center.

Scroll to / ▸ apps ▸ nm-applet and check disable-connected-notifications and disable-disconnected-notifications settings there. Check the attached image for clarifications.

As For the VLC, you need to visit VLC Preferences (Press Ctrl + P, or access it from tools Menu)

And Disable SysTray Popup when Minimized (Hover the move over that option and read the descripton)

Answer 8

You can also turn off particular notification.To turn off pidgin notification,Open pidgin-->Tools--->Plugins

Uncheck libnotify popups there..

To turn off notify-osd notifications,type the following in terminal and restart your system.

sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.disabled

To disable rythmbox song pop up notification:

Go to:

Edit -> Plugins

and uncheck the Status Icon plugin.

Another way:

Edit --> Plugins

Select Status Icon, click the configure button

Choose the never shown option for notifications.

Answer 9

To disable the Notification bubbles you can remove the 'Notification Area' item from the panel. Just right click on the notification area item and select 'Remove From Panel'.

UPDATE: The Notification Area will be no more from Ubuntu 11.04