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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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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How can I send a custom desktop notification?
I have a custom script and I want to send a desktop notification (the one that appears in the top right corner of the screen) with a custom message. How do I do that?
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Disable "Mouse battery low" spam notification
Countless times over the past few weeks I have been notified about the low battery in my wireless mouse. Every time it wakes up from sleeping mode and reconnects over Bluetooth I get a notification. I ...
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Remove Spotify pop-up notification when a song starts
I would like to remove the bubble notifications of Spotify that are shown when a new song is being played. This is quite distracting while you are working.
I still like the integration within the ...
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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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"Failure to download extra data files" with ttf-mscorefonts-installer on Ubuntu 16.04
I have been receiving notifications about "failure to download extra data files" from update notifier. It asked me to download fonts in request from the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package. However, ...
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Desktop notification when long running commands complete
I'd like to have a desktop notification whenever a command that has run for more than, say 15 seconds, finishes in an interactive shell.
In other words, I would like all commands to be wrapped in ...
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How to get the "Your battery is broken" message to go away?
Every time I turn on my computer, I see a message saying something like:
Your battery may be old or broken.
I am already aware that my battery is bad. How do I suppress this message?
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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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Turn off calendar notifications - Ubuntu 20.04
My Google calendar notifications keep popping up. Every single one of them. I have turned off Firefox notifications in the Settings menu. I tried this but there is no preference menu in my Ubuntu 20.4....
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Gnome Shell: Move windows to front on launch (No more "... is ready to use" notifications)
I've been using Gnome Shell with Ubuntu for few days now and have experienced really annoying behaviour with new windows.
Sometimes when I use another window and press e.g. Alt+Ctrl +T to open new ...
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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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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 do I show memory usage information in top bar or as notification?
I have 4GB RAM. When I open Firefox, IntelliJ IDEA or VS Code and some other application my memory is about used up thus my machine hangs and I can't do anything. I can't even close any applications. ...
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Where do I find system sounds?
After installing gm-notify I see the option of hearing a sound every time a new e-mail arrives in my Gmail inbox, but I don't know where Ubuntu (10.4) stores the system sounds to assign one. Any ideas?...
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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 stop evolution-alarm-notify
A few months ago, I started getting these pop-ups from evolution-alarm-notify. They are some kind of calendar reminder. But they are horribly inaccurate. They either don't reflect any changes I have ...
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Battery Monitor for Ubuntu 20.04
Just yesterday I migrated from Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 20.04.
In 18.04 there was a software called "Battery Monitor" that monitors your battery percentage and notifies you when your battery percentage ...
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Send messages between 2 Ubuntu PCs (Net Send Style)
I am trying to find a way to send a message (like a popup message) from 1 PC to another. both are using Ubuntu. Already tried the smbclient way but this only works between a linux PC to a windows PC. ...
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How to disable notification from network-manager
Can i disable all libnotify related notification from Network Manager ? 'Edit Connection' dialog doesn't help out
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How to get an email notification when a USB storage device is inserted?
We are running more than 600 Ubuntu systems in our company. It is a data centre so we have certain policies. We have disabled the usage of storage devices in all the Ubuntu systems. However we would ...
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View full message from gnome notifications area
The Gnome Notifications area only shows the title and a portion of the first line of a message.
Clicking on the message in the Notifications area simply removes the message.
I've tried looking at the ...
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How to send KDE5 desktop notification from a bash script?
I've tried a number of options, none of them worked:
notify-send 'text'
kdialog --passivepopup 'text' 5
qdbus org.kde.knotify /Notify event "event" 'app' "(" ")" 'title' 'text' 'pixmap' '' 5 0
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How do I clear all gnome shell notifications?
I use Jupiter as a power manager. Now I get a good number of notifications from it. I do not have problem with the fact that I get all these notifications.
I do however, want to be able to clear all ...
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How to read dbus-monitor output?
I'm playing around with dbus-monitor to try and understand how dbus is working in Ubuntu environment. I have several questions in this regard:
Could you please let me know how to read the following ...
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How can I dismiss "Software Updates Installed" notification?
For days, Software has been nagging me to close snap-store so that it can update itself.
Now that's resolved and it has finally installed various updates, it shows a notification every time I boot up:
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Why is my Ubuntu 18.04 distribution asking me to upgrade to Pop!_OS 19.10?
I have Ubuntu 18.04 and I just received a notification that I can upgrade to Pop!_OS 19.10. Why in the world would this happen? Did I break my system? Has anyone else had something similar happen?
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How to clear Ubuntu notifications?
Is there a way to clear the pop up notifications I get from changing the volume, brightness, dropbox updates, etc...?
Sometimes I have to sit and wait for them to go away so that I can continue to ...
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How to use systemd notify
I'm learning how to use systemd notify. I'm thinking it is a kind of mechanism, which allows a process to send a notification to another process.
So, I tried to make a notification with the command ...
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How do I remove the "Undo" popup when deleting a file in Nautilus?
When I send a file to the Trash using the delete keyboard button, a popup appears at the top of the nautilus window, saying that the file has been removed, and showing a button to undo the operation.
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Is it possible to view the notifications' history on Ubuntu 18.04?
Is there a way to see/display notifications' history on Ubuntu 18.04?
EDIT:
I installed indicator-notifications following this answer but, contrary to what was told in the answer,
You will find ...
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Move Chrome notifications or use system notification
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I have the Chrome notifications popping up in the lower left corner of my main screen. This is quite annoying, 'cause the cursor of my terminal windows are right there, and they cover ...
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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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Konsole - silence in session 'Default'
Why is my Konsole generating notifications every 10 seconds after a keypress in statusbar "Konsole -- silence in session 'Default'".
In "Configure Notifications -- Plasma" I can deselect ...
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How to prevent notifications from grabbing focus in 18.04
I updated from 16.04 LTS to 18.04 last year, and the Gnome notifications are a nuisance. In 16.04 with Unity, notifications would not grab focus, they'd just appear as an overlay in the corner -- you ...
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Annoying Viber notification
Can I somehow put Viber notification icon on top of the Unity panel (near Dropbox and others)?! It's pretty ugly to stay in top left corner...
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How to disable "extra packages can be installed" popup in Kubuntu 15.04?
Kubuntu 15.04 shows a notification (and a taskbar icon) on each boot, after the log in, offering me to install extra packages, specifically flash, and I really don't want to install it. I've pressed "...
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How to run Thunderbird in the background?
I want to get instant notifications for new emails and I don't want to install and configure an extra program for that. Thunderbird shows notifications, so does Gmail webapp. But both of them work ...
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How to disable "Mouse battery low" notification in Ubuntu 18.04?
Notification blocks for example tabs from browser and is very annoying overall. Mouse works fine and will most likely continue working over a month, and battery is really simple to swap. Therefore ...
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Is it possible to temporarily disable notifications?
I certainly like notifications in 12.04, but depending on the work I do they can be quite distracting.
Is there an official way or a tweak to temporarily deactivate notifications?
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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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Don't wake screen on notifications when locked
When I lock my laptop, if chrome or other apps have a notification it will wake the screen. How can I disable that while still keeping it locked and open?
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How to call desktop notifications on Ubuntu GNOME?
I was wondering how exactly one makes a desktop notification come up on Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18? What I mean is how do I get one of these desktop notifications to come up with text that I ...
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cannot find/read/delete new notifications on lock screen
In Ubuntu 17.10 the lock screen tells me that there is a new notification from Backups and another from the Software Manager. However I don't see how I can view those notifications. When I start ...
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How can I replace Google Chrome's low resolution notification icon?
Google Chrome was recently upgraded to version 35.0.1916.114 on my Ubuntu 14.04 installation.
Since then the notification icon has begun to show up on the system tray. However it seems it's using a ...
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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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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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Quick shortcut to dismiss notifications in Gnome 3?
I have been using Super+M to access the notifications area then Tab followed by Space to cancel/dismiss notifications.
Is there a "quicker" shortcut (i.e. more direct/immediate action)?
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How can I play a custom sound when my battery is low?
I want my computer to play a custom sound file when my battery is low (say 10%). How can I do this?
Thanks
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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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