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Asked: 2020-05-13 13:51:30 +0800 CST

Turn off calendar notifications - Ubuntu 20.04

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My Google calendar notifications keep popping up. Every single one of them. I have turned off Firefox notifications in the Settings menu. I tried this but there is no preference menu in my Ubuntu 20.4.

Example:

Example

Please, does anyone know how to turn off the calendar pop ups?

notification calendar

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    If you added online accounts, go to settings > Applications > calendar, then turn off notifications

    Or you can go to settings > online accounts > google account the calendar option

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  2. You can suppress the ugly pop-up window – but keep the less obtrusive Gnome Shell notification – by setting /org/gnome/evolution-data-server/calendar/notify-with-tray in dconf.

    I discovered this from a comment in a related evolution-data-server bug report (GNOME/evolution-data-server#60).

    Option 1: Use dconf Editor

    Install dconf Editor if it's not already installed:

    sudo apt install dconf-editor

    Launch dconf Editor:

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    Navigate to /org/gnome/evolution-data-server/calendar and set notify-with-tray to "on":

    dconf-notify-with-tray

    Option 2: Use gsettings

    Alternatively, a quicker way to turn this setting on is to issue following command in the terminal:

    gsettings set org.gnome.evolution-data-server.calendar notify-with-tray true
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  3. Currently it's the way how evolution notification daemon is working. If u want to disable just reminders, but keep notifications you can do it by so:

    • Copy the file /etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop to your local .config/autostart folder.
    • Open the copy with a text editor, and change the line OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;XFCE;Dawati;MATE; to NotShowIn=GNOME;

    Now keep in mind, that you can replace GNOME by any distro you're using.

    You need to log out then back in for the change to take effect.

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  4. Switch of the notifications of "Evolution Alarm Notify" without any need to open scripts or files just like so:

    1. Search for Notifications in Ubuntu's search bar (hit the windows key), which is a menu point of the Settings. It looks like

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    1. Click on "Evolution Alarm Notify", which looks like

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    1. Switch off as per your preferences.
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