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Is it possible to change where macOS Notification Center alerts appear on the screen?
They currently appear at the top right of the screen with the menu bar:
Alerts appearing in the top right tend to cover up work I'm doing more often than not. They cover up browser tabs, toolbar icons, and window titles.
I would prefer, say, the bottom right corner of the screen.
If moving the alerts is not possible, is it possible to change the screen on which they appear?
I'm a Mac OS X developer and I just finished adding Notification Center support to my app. For what it's worth, here's what I found out:
I have no idea if this is a bug in Safari or Notification Center, or both. However, I am fairly confident that there is nothing you can do about the second issue (there might be a hidden defaults setting for the first one, but I haven't heard of it). I did check the WebKit API Specification, to make sure it's not something that the individual websites are doing, and you can rule out websites from your suspect's list, because they do not have any control over the notifications.
I guess we'll have to wait and see if Apple will address this in its next bug fix release (10.9). However, by the looks of it, not showing notifications when the app is frontmost is a "feature", so don't get your hopes up.
Yes! You can simply click and drag the alert off to the right and it will disappear. If you have a multi-touch input device such as a trackpad, you can also use two fingers and swipe it away to the right.
Additionally, you can temporarily move the notification by dragging it to the left:
It will stay there for a few seconds and then move back to its original position. This currently seems very buggy, but perhaps it'll work better with future updates.
Best Answer
Unfortunately, you can't change the screen position of the Notification Center Alerts and Banners. This is a huge gripe of mine as well, and I highly encourage you to complain about this issue to Apple here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macos.html
Hopefully they will one day change this. I also have not been able to find or formulate any hacks.
I, too, am annoyed by it covering up controls in my modeling applications, tabs in my browser, etc.
You can move the Notification Center to another screen, however your entire menu bar goes with it. When you have more than one monitor active, open up System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement. Click and drag the white bar inside one of the squares representing your current primary monitor and drag it to another monitor.
For notifications that don't need immediate attention, consider changing the alert style from Alerts to Banners. Banners are automatically dismissed into the notification center where you can find them later.
Good luck, and keep spreading the word that we need to tell Apple to make this experience better.