Ubuntu – How to disable system tray notifications in 14.04

14.04notify-osd

I don't like, need nor want the notification bubbles which pop up in the top right corner of the screen. I've looked around quite a bit but can't identify how to disable them?

NotifyOSD Configuration let's me change the look of them, but not get rid of them. Can anyone help?

Thanks.

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To completely turn off notifications, open a Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and type the following command:

sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.disabled

Finally restart your system to open a new session without notifications bubbles.

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I have recently fall into this problem. The other answer didn't help me much. But thanks to the answerer above, I found the package name for that quickly.

I did this to solve my problem:

Opening a terminal and executing this command:

gksu gedit /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.xfce4-notifyd.Notifications.service

Then replace the line:

Exec=/usr/lib/xfce4/notifyd/xfce4-notifyd

with this one:

Exec=/usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd

Or, if on Ubuntu 16.04:

Exec=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/notify-osd

Save and exit.

Problem solved.

As an extra benefit, I get the nice notify-osd in XFCE too.

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i3 is using "dunst" notification daemon, so you have to remove it in order to re-enable ubuntu notify-osd.

Execute following from terminal:

sudo apt-get purge dunst
killall dunst
notify-send "Hello"

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