Questions tagged [notify-osd]
ubuntu notification bubbles
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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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How do I disable the chameleon effect in notifications and the Unity launcher?
Is there a way to stop the new unity feature that changes the colour of the launcher and notifications that matches them to the wallpaper?
Its an interesting feature, but I would rather not have a ...
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Notify-osd notifications appear unthemed in top-left corner
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I recently upgraded from 13.04 to 13.10, and suddenly notification bubbles don't appear themed as usual in the upper right corner, but they appear as white text on blue background in the ...
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How can I customize/disable notification bubbles?
Is there a way you can disable or customize the notification bubbles on Lucid?
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Is there a way to view notification history?
If I walk away from my PC, then there is a good chance I might miss certain notifications. I've seen in KDE that notifications get stored and stacked until you click them (or whatever).
Unless I'm ...
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Close button on notify-osd?
Is it possible to get a close button on the OSD?
It stays for a long time, and sometimes I have colleagues over on my PC, and I dont want them seeing who is online, or what song I am listening to. ...
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Is there a "don't disturb" option to temporarily hide notifications, like on macbooks?
Does there exist "Don't disturb mode" as is does for OSX device, where you can decided when notification can bother you, or not..
I just installed chrome, and I usually get spammed by group texts ...
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Notify-send ignores timeout?
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but shouldn't the commands (run separately)
notify-send -t 1 "test"
notify-send -t 1000 "test"
notify-send -t 10000 "test"
have ...
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How do I change how long notifications are displayed?
Is there a way to change how long the libnotify notifications last? I've googled around for this for months and no still no luck.
I'm actually starting to think that you can't change it. I can't ...
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notify-osd and dual monitors
I use Ubuntu 10.10 on a laptop, with an external monitor, which is used as the primary. Notify-osd alerts show on the connected monitor, as I want.
However, some days ago I removed both gnome panels ...
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Remove 'printer added' notifications from GNOME 3
I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 17.04, using the GNOME desktop. Suddenly, I've started seeing 'printer added' notifications as OSD popups - approximately every 2 minutes! It's really distracting.
Anyone ...
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How to make Skype use notify-osd?
How do I make Skype use the default Ubuntu notify-osd to display notifications (incoming messages, users connecting, etc.) instead of the Skype's own "ugly" message box?
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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 can I read NotifyOSD messages after they are displayed?
I'd like to read a list of messages displayed by notify-osd from time to time. I'm using 12.04 still, if it matters. Is this possible?
These two questions from 2010 indicate that a log file should ...
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How do I send a notify OSD message to a remote user via ssh?
Sometimes we need to send a message to a remote user. We can display messages on our local desktop using Notify OSD, but we are unable to send a message to the remote user's desktop.
We tried the ...
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Unity Tweak Tool Schema Missing com.canonical.desktop.interface
Running Unity on fresh install of 14.04. I installed Unity Tweak Tool through the Software Center, and on initial launch it said:
The following schema is missing
com.canonical.notify.osd
In ...
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How can I temporarily filter-out certain notification-bubbles coming from specific sources?
I have my system configured such that when I receive new mail, a notification balloon appears on my screen. This is convenient at times, and distracting at other times. Without having to uninstall ...
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Disable notifications on track change?
I've not long been running Banshee on 11.04, and my main problem with it is that when changing tracks a notification is displayed, this is all fine when using hardware buttons on my laptop to change ...
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How do I disable network printer discovery in Ubuntu 17.10?
I have an HP network printer on my local network. I have installed HPLIP on my Ubuntu 17.10 laptop. I keep getting OSD notifications of the same printer being added. It is a duplicate printer ...
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Is there a way to make Ubuntu read out notifications?
Ubuntu has a very cool notification system. Is there a way to make Ubuntu read out notifications when they appear?
Or is it possible to link the text in notifications to espeak?
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Is it possible to replace notify-osd with Gnome 3 Indicators? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Gnome 3 notifications are replaced with notify-osd when the machine goes to sleep
I have gnome shell installed in ubuntu 11.04 fully. It still, however, uses the ubuntu ...
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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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What is the name of the program that displays the notifications?
What is the name of the program that displays the notifications in ubuntu ? The ones like sound changes, song name (in rhythmbox) etc. Can I send my own custom messages to it ?
quick answer
notify-...
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How to install NotifyOSD-Config?
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 and I tried to install NotifyOSD-Config to no avail using the following code from this thread:
How do I change how long notifications are displayed?
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:...
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indicator-notifications history [duplicate]
I am looking for a way to view all the entries in indicator-notifications. I have it installed already and running. By default, it shows just five recent notifications even when you have more than ...
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Script to Notify me when something happens on a shared directory
The situation is:
I have a shared directories from many other machines where other users work on.
I need to be notified whenever a user create, modify or delete a directory or file from his local ...
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Gnome 3 notifications are replaced with notify-osd when the machine goes to sleep
A similar question exists for 11.04, but the answers were "wait for 11.10; it'll work there." 11.10 has arrived, and it dun broke on me. :-(
When I first started using Gnome Shell, the Gnome 3 ...
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Is it possible to block NotifyOSD for one application?
Is there any way to prevent NotifyOSD (or XFCE-Notify) from displaying notifications from one particular application?
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Is it possible to cancel or clear a notification created by using notify-send?
So I wrote a little script that makes sure a certain user plugs in a laptop when he logs on (it disables if he doesn't). The script uses notify-send to tell him to plug it in. If he plugs it in, the ...
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Does Gnome3 have a method to filter desktop notifications?
Does Gnome3 have a method to filter desktop notifications based on notification content? If so, how?
Desktop notifications are useful, and I know that it's possible to turn them off per-application.
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notify-osd replaced with dunst after switching back to unity from i3wm
I was testing i3wm (sudo apt-get install i3 is what I ran, and chose i3 from the log in screen) on my machine and after a while, decided to switch back to Unity. Upon switching back, I noticed that ...
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How can I make smaller pop-ups on Lubuntu?
I want to see smaller pop-ups but where have I to go to configure this?
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Message overflow in notification bubble
I am learning how to use gtk notifications, and it seems that any output display via the notification bubble has a maximum overflow size, probably 10 lines or so. So, if the message I want to show is ...
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Sending normal-urgency notifications via notify-send
I'm currently on 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) and I can't seem to get any notifications to show unless they're sent with the urgency set to critical, like so:
notify-send -u critical "IRC" "This is a ...
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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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Accidentally replaced notify-osd with xfce-notifyd, how do I fix it?
The day before yesterday, after an update, Gwibber Notifications got screwed a bit (Once I log in, they appear in bulk, for 2 seconds only while before they used appear one by one and each ...
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notify-osd stops working after totem has been running for a while
I'm using notify-send to get notifications. Since yesterday, it stopped working.
After a reboot, I could get a few messages through, but a minute later I can't any more. I have spammed it with a few ...
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No notifications from notify-osd on 13.10
I recently upgraded to 13.10. Notify-OSD works correctly (notify-send test sends correctly the notification using gnome-shell style), but I'm not able to get notifications on volume up/down, next/...
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How to disable system tray notifications in 14.04?
I don't like, need nor want the notification bubbles which pop up in the top right corner of the screen. I've looked around quite a bit but can't identify how to disable them?
NotifyOSD Configuration ...
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notify-send only works with sudo
Problem
sudo notify-send Test "Hello World"
Displays a notification as expected.
notify-send Test "Hello World"
Does not display a notification.
Further information
Ubuntu version 16.04.
The ...
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Where are the stock-icon-names defined for the unity-panel-service indicators and notify-OSD?
Layout cases in the Notification | Ubuntu App Developer document states that
... using non-existing (stock-)icon-names ... use one of the new
icon-name (see icons) ...
and that this (icons at ...
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How do I send text messages to the notification bubbles?
I wrote a python code for getting random text into a .txt file.
Now I want to send this random text into notification area via 'notify-send' command.
How do we do that?
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Chrome desktop notifications use notify-osd?
Is there a way to make Chrome/Chromium's notifications use notify-osd instead of the ugly boxes it uses by default?
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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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Show notifications with notify-send when application is full screen?
Is it possible for notify-send to show notifications even if there is application opened in full screen (e.g. chromium, hit F11)? Currently, it does not appear.
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How to make Firefox use native notification (notify-osd)?
I've seen this:
As you can see Firefox is using the Ubuntu notification to notify the user.
How to do that?
I just want to get notifications for anything in general: for example, if a download is ...
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Why are notifications so low?
Whenever notifications show up, they are much lower than I would expect. In most screenshots I see, they are directly under the top panel, but for me, there's a large gap:
Is there any way to change ...
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How can I make clicking Notify-OSD notifications bring me to their application/message? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Gnome-style notifications in Unity
I would like to be able to click on a notification so that the App opens and shows the message. Say I get a Pidgin message, a click on the ...
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How would I send all NotifyOSD message to a text file?
How could I make NotifyOSD send all updates to a text file (As well as do what it does)?
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How can you keep a record of notifications?
I'm using Radio-Tray and I would like to keep a list of the tracks which get played and I was wondering if it was possible to do this by keeping a record of the Ubuntu notifications?
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