Questions tagged [notification]
Questions that relate to the system that delivers a visual message or indicator to the user. In Ubuntu such notification is implemented in a consistent way, with non-interactive, non-directional, non-overlapping visual bubbles.
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disable keyboard battery notifications in 13.10
I've updated to 13.10, and I'm getting notifications every hour or so that my wireless keyboard battery is low ... while it's sort of clever that Ubuntu can do this now and wants to show it off, a "...
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Outlook.com webapp
Does Outlook.com webapp (still called live mail, but that is not important) work even when the browser is not open? I mean let's say I close Chromium to play a game; yet I would like to be notified ...
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Can notify-send be used to send pop-up notifications to a Windows X server over ssh?
I'd like my backup script to issue a notification once it's done. I run Ubuntu as a headless server and login into it using PuTTY on Windows. I've already installed x11-apps and verified xclock and ...
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How to issue notifications that echo across all open consoles of particular user?
I've heard about notify-send of libnotify-bin, but it only seems purposed for GUI desktops.
Is there a simpler counterpart that's just for consoles? Similar to the warning/notification we get when ...
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Authentication required by wireless network appears multiple times
Sometimes when I don't use my Ubuntu for a long time - maybe a day, I can see the popup showing
Authentication required by wireless network
There's obviously some wireless connects and disconnects....
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How can I get desktop notifications to display on both screens
I have a laptop and a secondary screen that I use for most of my work. When notifications are displayed, they are only on the laptop screen. How can I get it to display on both screens?
Ubuntu 13.04
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Use notify-osd instead notification-daemon in GNOME-Shell
How I can replace **notification-daemon** (ugly notifications at bottom of screen) by
NotifyOSD (modern bubbles in right upper corner) ?
I found some posts about this, but GNOME at default mode ...
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Adding a custom icon (for a hand written script) to notification area xfce
I don't use unity, and I wrote a simple script to start programs used in recording audio. (Jack, guitarix, etc) I would like to know is there a command that will allow me to create an icon in the ...
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Facebook Messenger notification sound doesn't work
Lately I've installed FBmessenger in Ubuntu 13.04 following these instructions
The App worked fine: I could receive instant messages, see when someone commented my posts and so on, except ...
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How to change the notifications dialog theme?
After installing Gnome 3 on my Ubuntu 13.04 (Unity) the "notification dialog theme" (screenshot below) changed. I'd like to know if is possible to return to the Unity default notification dialog theme ...
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Disable Bubble notifications in Empathy using Ubuntu 13.04
How do I Disable Bubble notifications in Empathy using Ubuntu 13.04? There are a couple threads out there like this one:
how to disable Empathy notifications in ubuntu 13.04
but there isn't an org ...
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chromium web app integration notifications not working?
Ubuntu 13.04, Chromium 28, unity-chromium-extension 2.4.7.
I was able to add Google plus and Gmail as short-cuts it seems. But when I set an email as read only I do not get a notification popup, nor ...
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Notification icon for wireless connection when using /etc/network/interfaces
I have modified /etc/network/interfaces in order to connect to my wireless network automatically on startup.
My question: Is there a way, to put a notification icon on the top panel to confirm that ...
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Can I open email by clicking on notification?
On Ubuntu 12.04, using Thunderbird, everything up to date.
Whenever mail arrives, I get notification in right hand top part of the screen. The notification is somewhat similar to what outlook shows ...
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Alternative to yad/Zenity for Unity
In Ubuntu 13.04 yad and Zenity notification icons aren't showed in Unity.
I have written a script to use notification icon to alert me about lftp download progress.
Is there any alternative that it ...
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Less volatile alternative to notify-send for notifications
I need a mechanism similar to notify-send for sending notifications, but which would be more permanent - I would like the notification to only disappear when the user clicks on it, no sooner.
If user ...
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google voice notifications ubuntu 13.04 [closed]
i've tried here:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/06/add-google-voice-alerts-to-the-ubuntu-messaging-menu
i've also tried:
https://launchpad.net/gvoice-notifier
and i've tried to install growl for ...
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Is there a git indicator to get notification on commit, pull?
Is there an indicator for watching a git repository and get notification on commit, push, ... ?
Searching "indicator ubuntu git watch repository" send me a lot of indicator hosted on github... can't ...
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Notification theme broken
I have an almost fresh Ubuntu 13.04 installation. The only thing I did was adding a PPA for the i3 window manager, and of course installed i3. However, I don't know if the problem I have relates to ...
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How to obtain mail icon on the top panel?
I just installed Ubuntu 13.04. In 12.04 I used gmail notifier and I had handy mail icon on the top panel.
Now with 13.04 I tried few email notifiers (like gm-notifier or unity mail) and I always ...
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How can I integrate Pidgin with the indicator/messaging menu without displaying popups?
Since the usability gods work in mysterious ways, in 13.04 it's no longer possible to whitelist systray icons that I want to see. While the messaging menu is less useful than the flashing Pidgin icon (...
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Facebook notifications keep popping up
I have set up the Facebook account in the online accounts in Ubuntu 13.04. It's supposed to show me Facebook notifications on time; instead, it continues to show old notifications at a fixed time for ...
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Xubuntu - command/shortcut to hide all notifications
Is there a command/shortcut avaiable to hide all popped-up notifications? Some of my scripts produce notifications which dont auto-hide, you have to click them.
I'd like to have a keyboard shortcut ...
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Spotify-nonify.py script doesn`t work in Ubuntu 13.04
When I was on Ubuntu 12.10 I was using spotify-notify.py script which make spotify compatible with media buttons and there is a notifications showing when playing a song
but on Ubuntu 13.04 is no ...
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filter messages to "notification area" applet
I need to change the way the notification area applet (not the indicator applet!) is displaying notifications. I like the old way where notifications were briefly shown on a black popup window; I can ...
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What is this red light in lower right hand corner?
Here is a screen shot. Its not there after I restart but appears again:
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How to remove Xubuntu notification style?
I downloaded Xubuntu to try it on Ubuntu. After uninstalling it using
sudo apt-get purge xubuntu-desktop
I found out that even after that when there were pop-up notifications, it would appear in ...
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Notification Transparency
Is there a way to customize the notifications (notify-send) that appear ?
Colour, transparency, font, font size, font colour, etc ?
I would mainly like to increase transparency.
Ubuntu 13.04
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multiple gmail account notifier ubuntu 13.04
in 12.04 i used an app that used NotifyOSD to notify me if i got one of my three gmail accounts.
and sadly i cant find it for 13.04.
Both gm-notify and gm-notifier only works with 1 gmail acount.
Is ...
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How to get caps/num/scroll lock keys OSD notification?
I would like to have a OSD notification display briefly everytime the CAPS, Num, or Scroll Lock state toggles.
Is there a way to do this?
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how to disable Empathy notifications in ubuntu 13.04
in 12.10 there was a tab on preferences of empathy that i could configure notifications in empathy and now in 13.04 it's not available anymore
so is there any way to disable the notifications or the ...
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lubuntu (lxde desktop) - is there any device notifier in panel?
I have lubuntu 13.04 and I'd like to know if there is any device notifier to show in lxde panel in order to safetely remove safely or manage usb and other device without opening lxde folder manager?
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How can I get a messaging menu indicator with unread count of my new Gmail emails?
Back in Ubuntu 12.04, installing the gm-notify application allowed did these things:
Shoe me the number of unread messages in my inbox
Show me a blue envelope when an email was received
Show me a ...
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Facebook notifications in Ubuntu 13.04 [closed]
Which apps will give me facebook notifications in Ubuntu 13.04
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Nagios Notification via Ubuntu notify-osd
I have been looking around for a nagios plugin that offers the ability to have alerts for my hosts and services that i monitor to come through to my ubuntu pc in the form of an onscreen notification.
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Release upgrade notification after upgrade completed
I've upgraded my ubuntu server to the 13.04 release. Unfortunately during the upgrade process I lost the connection to the server and the server hasn't completed correctly the upgrade to this release.
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How do I remove this annoyingly pixelated popup?
How do I remove this annoyingly pixelated popup? It looks like the gnome3 popup for volume, however it only pops up when i use my laptops multimedia keys, not the volume or brightness keys. I can't ...
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Disabling Java auto update notification in ubuntu?
I am looking for a way in ubuntu to disable the Java/JRE update notification so users do not get asked to allow or delay a JRE update. I would like to have it not check at all so it is not possible ...
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Certain Xubuntu graphics persist on Ubuntu
I recently installed the Xubuntu desktop environment on my Ubuntu machine. It's nice, but I switched back to Ubuntu as by default desktop environment. But when I change the volume or brightness, the ...
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How to make a sound once a process is complete?
I have started a long process through a terminal. Is it possible to make the Ubuntu terminal make a sound once the process is complete? This way, I don’t need to keep checking, but will instead be ...
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Outlook.com and Google Apps email notifier for gnome-shell?
So, pretty basic question,
I use outlook.com for some work email, I use multiple Google Apps emails for different things.
I don't use an email client, I just use the different webmail interfaces,
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Need application/script alerting when system memory is running out [duplicate]
I don't won't to use swap file (due to some bug in kernel or AMD driver).
I wan't to have some util running and monitoring free system memory and alerting me when it becomes less than some specified ...
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How to configure which notifications are skipped in xfce4-notifyd (Lubuntu 12.10)?
I have accidentally clicked on "hide this notification" / "Do not show this message again" button in OSD notification system in Lubuntu 12.10, namely xfce4-notifyd. The information was about wireless ...
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Why did I stop getting Thunderbird email notifications?
I'm not getting notifications anymore, when a new email in Thunderbird arrives.
How can I fix this and continue getting notifications? I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 with the Xfce desktop environment.
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How can I make Unity dock notifications more visible? [duplicate]
By default dock icons of applications where something is going on have a very faint glow effect. Is there any way to make them stand out more? Like jump around, have a colored arrow or something like ...
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Print a helpful error message when printing quota is reached
I'm attempting to set up print quotas for printers here at the office.
However, it appears when the quota is reached, the print just fails silently, and the user doesn't have any idea what's ...
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Is there a fancy vertical notification OSD that works for both ALSA and pulseaudio?
Is there a fancy way to get the volume notification OSD to work with both pulseaudio and ALSA? Right now the standard desktop ones only work with pulseaudio for me. How about a vertical OSD that I can ...
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What IM clients support Jabber and show notifications on the toolbar in Ubuntu 12.10?
I'm migrating from MacOS X back to Ubuntu, and trying to find an IM client I can use. I use IM quite a bit for work, so I really need to see notifications in the toolbar at the top of the screen.
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How can I display a message on the login screen?
In some circumstances it would be valuable for me to be presented with a short, text notification prior to logging in, so that I have the option to decide not to log in after seeing the message.
Is ...
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Unity Notifications do not look normal?
Ok so I think this is because I am missing a package. My unity notifications (ex. when unity tells me it is connected to a network) look ugly. They used to be translucent chameleon rectangles. Now ...