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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Getting notified of failed cron jobs
I'm concerned that cron jobs can fail silently for an indefinite period of time on vanilla Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.1 (Precise), and no one will notice. I would like to get a notification whenever a ...
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Change notification popup monitor [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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 ...
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How to show an application icon in the notification bubble?
I'm trying to integrate my app with Ubuntu notification system. It works ok, but I don't know how to show my icon in the bubble.
My code looks something like:
notification = Notify.Notification.new ("...
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Identical notification bubbles keep re-appearing
I have just recently noticed this problem occurring. When I receive an email, the on-screen notification bubbles 'keep popping up'. By this, I mean it will pop-up and tell me I have received an email, ...
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Is there a way to theme the notifications in XFCE?
I'm kinda bored of how they look and the fact that there's only 3 themes to choose from is even worse, so I was wondering if there is a way to theme the notification bubbles of XFCE?.
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How can I make xfce4-volumed keep giving notifications in Lubuntu?
I'm using Lubuntu 12.04, with xfce4-volumed installed, see this question. When I'm changing the volume using FN+Vol-, a nice notification balloon pops up. This is what I want. However, when I try to ...
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How to make docky and gnome shell work together?
I like gnome shell and I like docky. The problem is that the gnome shell places the notifications and that little notification dock down there. I want to place docky at the bottom but then the ...
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Will there be smileys support in Gnome shell notifications?
First I should say I love gnome shell a lot. Its awesome and its notifications are too good . I can directly chat in them without even opening another window. But my only problem is it doesn't ...
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lubuntu notify-send remove limit of 21?
sending notifications with notify-send in lubuntu
notify-send -i error -t 1000 "Error" "error notification"
I can send only 21 of them, after that no more notifications sent, the only way to receive ...
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How do I use 'notify-send' to immediately replace an existing notification?
When I use notify-send to show a notification on the desktop, and then use it again to show a different notification, I have noticed that the second one only shows after the first one has disappeared.
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How to force a new Notification in notify-osd to show up without waiting for the earlier one to exit?
I have made a script(and a .desktop shortcut leading to this script) for starting and stoping xampp...
It checks the status of xampp and accordingly either starts or stops xampp.
Now i have assigned ...
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Python-libnotify showing weird behaviour with xfce4-notifyd and notify-osd
I am trying to play with libnotify's python bindings. I got this code from /usr/share/doc/python-notify/examples and it is showing different behaviour with xfce4-notifyd and notify-osd.
Case-1 with ...
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How can I disable all GNOME Shell notifications? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I configure Gnome Shell Notification settings?
I recently switched to GNOME Shell. Everything works great expect that I keep getting notifications of wired disconnects ...
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How to set notify-OSD as default in Gnome Classic session?
Using Ubuntu 12.04. In Gnome Classic session, notify-OSD has been replaced with this one:
How to set notify-OSD back to default again?
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Quickly Project System-Notifications dont work ("import pynotify" fails)
If i create a quickly-project with the following command in terminal:
quickly create ubuntu-application helloworld
and then add in the HelloworldWindow.py the following lines,
import sys
import ...
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Control notification display time or better close them [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Close button on notify-osd?
How to customize on screen notifications?
The Unity notifications (notify-osd) are very much useful and nice. But It seems I can't close them ...
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Is there any way to use Ubuntu with an Android phone?
Could I plug in my Android phone into my Ubuntu PC via USB cable and have text messages and such appear in my Ubuntu notifications? Or something like that (similar to the Ubuntu for Android ...
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Wrong notification on GNOME Shell?
I just installed GNOME Shell on my 12.04 a couple hours ago.
The notifications are just cool, and I installed shell extensions, and it works smoothly in 1 hour.
Then I restarted my computer for some ...
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Xfce4 overrode my GNOME notifications (notify-osd). How do I get them back?
I installed xfce4 (sudo apt-get install xfce4) and now in an ordinary Ubuntu (unity) session I'm getting light-colored (what I'm assuming are xfce's) notification bubbles. How do I revert this back to ...
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How do I re-enable disabled network notifications in GNOME Shell?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I recently disabled (accidentally pressed "don't show again" button) some network notification on GNOME Shell. There are (as I can remember):
"GSM Network - You are now ...
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Is there any way to get notified when battery is full? [duplicate]
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 on a laptop, I was wondering if there is a way to get notified when the battery become full.
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"System program problem detected" message being shown often and without apparent reason [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I enable or disable Apport?
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 and for a couple of weeks I've had no problems at all with the distribution. Everything was perfect, but all of a ...
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Move the thunderbird notification from bottom panel
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop and running gnome-shell as primary desktop,I've couple of questions
1) I would like to move the thunder bird notification from bottom right corner to top panel ...
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Why doesn't clicking on notification buttons in Xubuntu 12.04 dismiss the notification?
When I try to reconnect my Bluetooth mouse in Xubuntu 12.04, I realized that all the notification windows do not allow me to press any buttons. I can click the buttons but nothing happens. I can close ...
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Disable automount notification for usb-drive
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome Shell and on my computer I have a usb-drive (with two partitions) that are always plugged in. When I login there is always a notification that they have been mounted. ...
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Can I forbid a particular application to display pop-up notifications?
I have installed AWN with a weather applet and it annoys me by complaining that it can't connect to the Internet (saying "network error in weather") frequently. Despite the fact my Internet connection ...
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Two notifications for empathy and no notification preferences tab?
I am getting an issue with empathy.
When I am in a chat every time I send a message I get a standard gnome-shell notification echoing what I just set, the same applies for when a message is received.
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notification daemon configuration trouble
I am using ubuntu 12.04, and I have somehow got a notification daemon with dumb looking graphics. (I actually purged unity and installed gnome. I also tweaked certain settings from compiz-...
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Change the Synergy notification icon?
I use Synergy to sync mouse and keyboard between desktops.
My question is, how do I change the Synergy indicator icons in Unity?
For reference, I am using the Faenza icon theme, and this is what ...
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Thunderbird occasionally does not display notifications on new mail arrival.
Hi Im using Ubuntu 11.
I am using thunderbird as my email client.
When I have a new email received, ubuntu gives me email notification which appears on my screen.
But sometimes, there is no email ...
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Panel notifcation - how can i update gsettings to add 'skype'
gsettings get com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist
shows
['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'hp-systray', 'scp-dbus-service']
How can I make it be
['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', '...
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How can I re-enable "never show" notifications in Xubuntu 12.04?
I've pressed the button "Never show again" on the notification related to the successful connection to a VPN network.
How can I re-enable this notification?
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Some system tray icons invisible in Gnome Classic 12.04
Tried all possible ways to give visibility to tray icons in Ubuntu 12.04 but no luck :(
Dconf-editor -> Navigate to Desktop -> Unity -> Panel -> change the value of systray-whitelist to "all"
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pop-up notifications not showing when using xchat
I use xchat for irc, and by default, xchat doesn't show pop-up notifications (unlike growl in Mac, which shows pop-up notifications) whenever something is posted on the message box. Is there a way ...
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How to change Ubuntu 12.04 Unity volume notification?
I'm using Unity on Ubuntu 12.04 and when I change the volume, I get a different volume indicator than the stock 12.04 notification. Based on what I've found searching through google, it is the gnome ...
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Instant sound notification on new mail?
I'm currently helping a food shop with replacing their overbloated Windows installation by Ubuntu. This went pretty well and the owner is quite happy, but there is still one issue: on Windows, he ...
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How to turn off the pop up notification in 12.04? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I customize/disable notification bubbles?
How can I turn off the pop up notification that comes at the top right corner each time when I get connected to the internet/...
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How can I make notifications appear on a specific monitor?
In my Ubuntu 12.04, I have two monitors: left is the laptop and the right one is an external and big monitor. My vision is generally focused on the laptop monitor, but the notifications appears in the ...
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Get Unity style notifications in Gnome Classic?
I prefer the look of Unity's notifications as opposed to Gnome's. How can I get it? Or at least some thing that looks similar?
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How to customize on-screen notifications?
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 ...
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Project Hamster notifications missing on upgrade to 12.04
I have upgraded from an almost default 11.10 install to 12.04. All went well and I can login, logout, etc. without any problem.
One very interesting thing about the Project Hamster notifications, ...
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How to show unread count on Messaging Menu?
Is there a way to show unread count on Messaging Menu icon, without opening it? I'm using Ubuntu 11.04.
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Notification out of screen
How to solve the problem? The notifications extrude the screen.Anyone could help?
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How to close notifications with the keyboard?
my problem is that when I insert a drive (HDD partition, DVD etc.) a notification appears, which has a unlimited duration.
Clicking somewhere (except the options) will close this notification, but it ...
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How to enable clickable notifications for pidgin? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make Gwibber notifications clickable?
I want to make the notifications ballons for pidgin clickable, so I can click on it and it should take me throgh direct to the ...
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How to make Gwibber notifications clickable?
One of the accounts that I have in Gwibber is my Twitter account. It nicely shows every now and then notifications with the new twits.
Whenever a twit has a link (URL) within it I feel an urge to ...
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How do I disable pop-up windows?
Ubuntu displays a variety of pop-up windows (including keyring manager, update manager, upgrading windows, etc.). I would like to not have any pop-ups on my screen. Is there a general way to disable ...
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How to Make A Root Script Run Pynotify
I need to run a script as root called root.py. I need to create notifications within the script. I made a separate script specifically for the notifications called notify.py.
Here is notify.py:
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How do I get thunderbird to give notifications for only my inbox
I'm using thunderbird with gmail imap. I have several filters setup since I receive a lot of email from several mailing lists. The notification for new mail is always lit, since I always have unread ...
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How can I configure xubuntu notifications to disappear at mouseover?
I would like to make xubuntu notifications (xfce4-notifyd) to get dismissed after I've moved my mouse cursor on them. Is this possible / how can I do this?
Preferably, I would also like them to stick ...
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