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JoshuaD
Asked: 2017-04-28 19:23:34 +0800 CST

Disable all Gnome Notifications (Gnome 3.20.4)

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How can I disable all popup notifications in Gnome 3.20.4?

I'm on Ubuntu 16.10 (64bit).

I have tried selecting "off" in the "Notification Banners"; that didn't work.

I also manually switched each application to "off", that also didn't work.

didn't work

I still get these popups, which I really don't like:

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How can I make these popup go away?

gnome

1 Answers

  1. Install dconf-editor, run it, and go to

    org.gnome.desktop.notifications

    here is a large string there that has all the applications that will receive the gnome notification. If the app has its own notifications you can enable them in the app and disable the system notification.

    I had to go into /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/components/autrunManager.js and comment out the following line:

    Main.messageTray.add(this);

    For me it was on line 546, but who knows how it scoots around in other versions of gnome (cause it's constantly changing).

    If the above methods do not work the try this out. but don't delete the line as suggested in answer just comment (#) it.

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