I'd like to be able to dismiss and open macOS Notification Center notifications with the keyboard.
(I'm not talking about opening/closing the Notification Center itself.)
Is this possible in some manner with a tool or setting or other software?
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I'd like to be able to dismiss and open macOS Notification Center notifications with the keyboard.
(I'm not talking about opening/closing the Notification Center itself.)
Is this possible in some manner with a tool or setting or other software?
Best Answer
You can create Automator service to run this Applescript and give it a keyboard shortcut in the System Preferences Keyboard shortcuts
This will close Alert and banners Notification
In Automator choose a new service
Add a Run Applescript Action
and replace it's code with:
Set the 'Service receives [no input] in [any application]'
Save the service.
Open the Keyboard shortcuts in System prefs and set your for your service under 'Services'
Now any newly launched app will pick the shortcut up.
(Note: I structured the script to counter throwing an error that will occur when the notifications/windows start to close.
otifications/window are numbered 1 through to the total count. But as they close the script would still be working of the old count. But the system will be re assigning the index of the windows.
So where we say start at 1 -6 the script will try and close window 1, window 2, window 3 and so on. But the system has re assigned the window numbers 1,2,3 to the last remaining windows. But the script will try and close window 4 and throw an error because it does not exist. The script will catch this and deal with it. )
If you want to click the 'Show' button on an Alert Notification. you change the button you click from 1 to 2.
Banner notifications do not have a button 2.
But you can just click the window.
So this code should take care of Showing.