Disable Notifications in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
Ubuntu 9.04 sports a new notification system called notify-osd which any application can use to alert you of changes. Although the notification overlays look pretty cool, they’re craving for your attention and could sometimes be very annoying and distracting.
You can turn off these notify-osd notifications by typing this single command in your terminal:
sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.disabled
Restart your computer. They’re gone. Forever!
[Via Ted Dziuba]
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27 Apr 09 at 3:15 pm
Oh jeez, thank you so much. The new notification system is TERRIBLE. Honestly, the fact that there is no customization, and no way of turning it off simply is a serious blow for Ubuntu. and I’m not the average user, I tried searching crontabs and everything else after kill -9 didn’t keep it from coming back.
Thanks again!
Trab
28 Apr 09 at 8:07 am
Quicker method: sudo chmod -x /usr/lib/notification-daemon/notification-daemon
Sasha Gerrand
29 Apr 09 at 7:05 am
Actually, notification-daemon is no longer the offender.
sudo chmod -x /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd
Doc
30 Apr 09 at 8:19 pm
You are my Hero!
kmf
5 May 09 at 7:08 pm
Most excellent. While I enjoy the notifications, they’re a pain when they take focus away from a VM.
Steven Brady
13 May 09 at 8:08 pm
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Paul
16 May 09 at 12:13 am
Thank you so much, these wretched things were driving me nuts! WHY do they do things like that, especially with no easily apparent way of turning it off.
Annie
27 May 09 at 5:59 am
I tried your solution and it didn’t work. I still get yellow pop ups that prevent mplayer from using XV. They appear on the desktop swither. Am I missing something?
Tom
15 Jun 09 at 11:00 pm
Thankss buddy, its very annoying at times of private chats as it pops up at the corner.
Nick
9 Aug 09 at 2:36 pm
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4 Nov 09 at 1:47 am
oh, thanks god, that someone pointed that out…
I felt like I would never be finishing any work anymore, since I left 8.04 behind…
every damn minute something pops up and I could not even stop the damn thing from doing it! Worst “Improvement” I have ever seen.
Serious, uncontrolable Popups are wrecking nervs!
It’s a scientific fact, that such popups are bad for concentration, work and due to stress even for health…
The person who cames up with the Idea of such a popupframework should be slaped very hard. The persons who decided to enable this stupid thing by default should be slaped even harder.
Always think before developing…
rakete
21 Jan 10 at 9:07 pm
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26 Feb 10 at 4:39 am
How did you discover this? In any case, you saved my sanity. It’s incredibly poor UI design (or cruelty) to make something so obnoxious, make many apps (like Firefox) use it often, and not provide an obvious way to turn it off. Ubuntu often does things because they can and they think it’s nifty, without thinking of the usability consequences. Integration of chat status with the OS login/logout UI is another poor UI design decision done for “niftyness”, this time without consideration to separation of trustworthy and untrustworthy UI elements. It’s not as obnoxious but shows the same “fire from the hip” approach to UI design.
Pascal Meunier
17 Mar 10 at 6:19 pm
Thank! It’s really bugging me!
Cléber Oliveira
20 May 10 at 1:41 am
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21 May 10 at 5:01 am
Excellent tip – still works fine in the latest version (10.04) of Lubuntu too – bye bye annoying notifications
ad
22 May 10 at 4:33 pm
Thanks so much for the tip. Yep it is a blow from the ubuntu team. Also the default theme in 10.04 too, so horible.
Ibex to Lynx
27 May 10 at 12:39 am
Thank you so much for tip on getting rid one of the “philosophies” of MS (Mark Shuttleworth)
Jeffrey
27 Jul 10 at 3:25 pm
I’m running Ubuntu 9.10 netbook and this crashed the netbook launcher every time I logged in until I undid it. Just fyi.
L
8 Aug 10 at 9:49 pm