Ubuntu – Disable notifications on track change

11.04bansheenotify-osd

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 track, but when using the sound menu the notifications overlap my sound menu.

So I'm just wondering if there is any way to disable notifications from showing, like there is in Rhythmbox?

Thanks,

Best Answer

Found an almost perfect solution, with thanks to @macydanim to pointing me in the right direction.

In Natty, Banshee won't show up in the notification area, so I ran the following command:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Mumble', 'Wine', 'Skype', 'hp-systray', 'banshee']"

This adds Banshee to a "whitelist" of applications allowed to be shown in the notification area.

Logged out, and logged back in again. Then in Banshee, went to Edit -> Preferences -> Extensions. Disabled Sound Menu Integration and enabled Notification Area Icon. Then, right clicked the notification icon and disabled show notifications.

I then disabled Notification Area Icon extension, and tried re-enabling Sound Menu Integration. This, however, still showed notifications whenever the track was changed. I found out though, that you don't need the Sound Menu Integration plug in enabled for Banshee to work in the sound menu. So if I leave it disabled I don't get notified on track change, but can still operate Banshee from the sound menu. The only downside, is that I can't click the close button on Banshee and have it minimise to tray, so you just have to remember to press the minimise button now instead of the close one and keep Banshee open.

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