Get rid of the ugly notification osd in lubuntu 14.10

Question

I installed lubuntu 14.10 recently. I love it so far. It's very fast and all. The only absolute one thing that really annoys me is the "out-of-shape" osd which is used for notifications. I haven't seen anything as ugly as this. I wouldn't mind if it takes to removing it, but I definately don't want it there. Any work-around? Here is an Image.

Answer 1

That's not how the panel is intended to look - this is a known bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lubuntu-artwork/+bug/1362555 (If you know how to use launchpad, please feel free to report that this bug also affects you.)

This file: /usr/share/themes/Lubuntu-default/gtk-2.0/images/panel-bg.png is the background of that notification and is tiled.

You could try removing that file or replacing that file with an image of your choice. Replacing it with a nice solid color or gradient would be a good option.

Or, here is an alternative workaround: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lubuntu-artwork/+bug/1362555/comments/14

Answer 2

Yes, there is a workaround described here:

Looks like broken theming. You can easily check by installing the package shimmer-themes and setting the notification theme (in xfce4-notifyd-config) to "Greybird". That should fix it.

shimmer-themes is available via the Lubuntu Software Center or you can just run sudo apt-get install shimmer-themes.

Then click on Notifications under Preferences to change to the Greybird theme for notifications. Doing so will only affect your onscreen notifications and nothing else. Of course, you can just use Greybird for everything if you wish.