Ubuntu – click away notifications (notify-osd)

12.10notify-osdunity

Is it possible to click away those fancy notifications?
Often I have to wait until those bubbles vanish and that's quite unproductive.

PS: Using currently 12.10

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Short answer: no. By design you are unable to close them (with a click, at least).

But if that really annoys you I have read sometime ago an article on WebUpd8 showing how to install a patched NotifyOSD version and a configuration tool to make them clickable. Those packages are provided through a PPA, so the usual pitfalls on using them apply(1).

Those PPA's have packages to Quantal, so if using a PPA is ok to you give it a try. I personally have never used them, so I cannot tell how stable they are or not. If something goes wrong you can use ppa-purge to revert the changes.

Configurable NotifyOSD Bubbles For Ubuntu: Move, Close On Click, Change Colors And More ~ Web Upd8

(1) Are “PPA's” safe to add to my system, and what are some “red flags” to watch out for?

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notifications are sent via DBUS and after installing notify-osd it redirects all notifications to itself.

This would not be particulary troublesome if not so many packages would depend on notify-osd directly (ubuntu-desktop, blueman, guake, update-notifier, network-manager-gnome, rhythmbox to name a few), efffectively breaking the ability to choose the notification system I'd like.

You can remove the diversion with the following command:

sudo dpkg-divert --remove --rename --package notify-osd --divert /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.notify-osd /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service

But (I haven't tested this) this might either break updates of notify-osd (and thus your system) in a bad way or it might just reappear on the next update of notify-osd.

Ubuntu – Persistent notifications in Unity

I read an article about this quite a while ago, so I don't know if it's working at this moment. The package is called "Recent Notifications" and can be found at: https://launchpad.net/~jconti/+archive/recent-notifications

The original article where I read about it:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/03/how-to-never-miss-an-ubuntu-notification-again

How to install via the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jconti/recent-notifications
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-notifications

Remember to log out and log back in.

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