Disable Gnome 3 notifications/pop-ups/integrated notifications

Question

I would like to disable the Gnome 3 notifications/pop-ups/integrated notifications (if that's even the right term for them). For example, they're the notifications that appear when your receive an IM via Empathy, or when Rhythmbox begins playing a new track.

I have downloaded the Gnome 3 Tweak Tool, but cannot find a solution in there. I have searched Google, the Gnome website, and the local help (via F1) but cannot find a way to turn these off. I would welcome either a solution here or a link to instructions.

I have also looked through all the hidden files in my home directory, and in /usr/share directories, and run quite a few find commands grepping (case-insensitive) for "Notification" and all sorts of substrings thereof.

I tried this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvNm3BnymAE but that did not stop the notifications from occurring.

Info:

Fedora 15 2.6.40.6-0.fc15.i686 GDM 3.0.4

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Another location using the dconf editor is under org.gnome.desktop.notifications. There 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 in org.gnome.desktop.notifications

Answer 3

I was frustrated about this too.

Install dconf-editor, run it, and go to

org.gnome.empathy.notifications

and disable the first three options (signin, signout, away).

Answer 4

I think this is what you're looking for:

Take a look in /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-fallback.session. Near the end of the file, you should see "RequiredProviders=windowmanager;notifications;". Just delete "notifications;" from that line.

source

Answer 5

If you have Gnome 3.2, you simply click on your user menu at the top-right and flip the Notifications switch.

Answer 6

On Gnome 3.28.4: At top-right corner of screen: Settings > Notifications > Flip the switch:

From CLI:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.notifications show-banners false