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[SOLVED]How to switch off/on Pop-up notifications in Mate?
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 4:50 pm
by Demeter
Hello!
Very often i need to take screen recordings, so very important to switch off pop-up notifications globally on desktop and switch on them after recording.
How to do it on Mate? I just can not find a convenient solution...

Re: [SOLVED]How to switch off/on Pop-up notifications in Mate?
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2018 11:10 pm
by erikdubois
Copy/pasting from discord where this question was answered by Marco Obaid
Quote : "I have not tested this, but you can try to turn off org.freedesktop.Notifications.service service"
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De ... s#Built-in
Re: [SOLVED]How to switch off/on Pop-up notifications in Mate?
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2018 10:37 pm
by Demeter
I've found this:
- to switch OFF:
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sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.mate.Notifications.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.mate.Notifications.service.disabled
- to switch ON:
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sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.mate.Notifications.service.disabled /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.mate.Notifications.service
It works but is it possible somehow to do it without entering password via launcher?
Re: [SOLVED]How to switch off/on Pop-up notifications in Mate?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 7:05 am
by erikdubois
Thanks for sharing
I am sure it will help someone in the future.
Re: [SOLVED]How to switch off/on Pop-up notifications in Mate?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 10:39 am
by Demeter
erikdubois wrote: ↑Mon Dec 10, 2018 7:05 am
I am sure it will help someone in the future.
This would be completed if we could make scripts that would run without a password and launch them with launchers .. I have no such experience.
Is it possible?
Re: [SOLVED]How to switch off/on Pop-up notifications in Mate?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 10:49 am
by erikdubois
Anything is possible.
But with sudo comes a password.
You can do it without.... but ofcourse not recommended
Re: [SOLVED]How to switch off/on Pop-up notifications in Mate?
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:32 pm
by Demeter
So the latest and the best solution for me - change MATE notifications to XFCE notifications
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sudo pacman -Rs mate-notification-daemon
sudo pacman -S xfce4-notifyd
To add new Notifications item to MATE Control Center:
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sudo nano /usr/share/applications/xfce4-notifyd-config.desktop
Change:
To:
So, unfortunately we cant't add applet to mate-panel for this but we can add keyboard shortcut: Mod4+N for Notifications
Now, finally I can control the behavior of desktop notifications on my MATE-desktop:
All works!
Re: [SOLVED]How to switch off/on Pop-up notifications in Mate?
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2018 5:55 am
by erikdubois
Thanks for the time you took to document this.
