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Enhancing User Experience with Apps on Desktop

For about a week I've been searching alternatives to MacOS, trying several Linux distros and various combinations of VM's for both OS's -- installing apps from repositories and command-line -- ...
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Notification sound suddenly does not play anymore

Notifications appear without sound, I tried changing theme, turn off/on do-not-disturb, everything else works fine. Only notifications have no sound.
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How do I display an icon with `notify-send`?

If I run notify-send --icon=address-book-new "My notification" the notification that comes up has an "info" icon: And if I look at the notification in the notification popover, ...
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Odin: How to cut notification sound of applications installed using flathub / deb?

I cannot cut the notification sounds for applications like Slack or Spotify installed using sideload / flathub or a deb file. I removed the sounds of all entries in the notification menu but I still ...
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Calendar not showing notiications for event reminders

It looks like the autostart entry that was bundled with the latest release with Calendar it's not running? At least not on my system. I can always start the daemon by hand and all reminders will just ...
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Not receiving any notifications in elementary OS 6

This was working yesterday when I installed,though I've done a bit of setup afterwards and now can't figure out why I'm not receiving notifications anymore. Even just running notify-send "Hello ...
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Notification center problems

how it's going on? I was upset with the fact that the icons of one of my most used applications, like Vivaldi and Spotify, didn't have the Elementary OS style. So I tried to use AppEditor from Flathub ...
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KDEConnect indicator not working with Pantheon desktop

I really like Elementary OS 6 but I cannot get the KDEconnect indicator to work with the pantheon desktop. If I open terminal, I can manually run up KDEconnect-settings and pair my android phone. So ...
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How notification system works in Elementary OS 5?

I have a question about how notifications work in Elementary OS 5.1.7 Hera. I have multiple apps installed like Slack and Spotify and I really need to see the ones from Slack but want to hide those ...
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Notifications don't open

I'm on Eos 5.1.7 Hera, and when I click a notification in the list it doesn't open. It's the same problem with every app. I've noticed there's no matter openning it by clicking on the bubble when ...
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How to provide icons and notification control for snap apps?

I downloaded Spotify app via snaps and it doesn't show up in app list. Notifications also fall under "other" category. I searched that to add an application icon, I should add .desktop file ...
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AppCenter keeps poping up in dock

I disabled any kind of notifications for AppCenter and removed it from the dock, but nevertheless once there is software update available it appears again. Why? How can I disable that behavior? ...
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Visual notifications not working with Element app

I installed the Element messaging app on Elementary OS and there is no visual notifications when somebody writes a message, only the audio notifications work i.e. a sound is played when I receive a ...
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Notifications as "others" instead of App itselfs (snap application)

I run slack as a snap application. To recognize and adjust slack notifications I changed .desktop properties. According this link, I added X-GNOME-UsesNotifications=true in /var/lib/snapd/desktop/...
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notification does not get feedback from apps

since a little while (perhaps a week or two, three maybe) my notification don't disappear if I go to the app that caused the notification. Example: I enter sleep 10 ; echo 'hallo' in a terminal and ...
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AppCenter is showing non-existing updates badge counter

Since yesterday, one update is always showing, but no update is actually there. I don't have any PPA installed, everything has been installed trough AppCenter. I tried to update everything through ...
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How to get rid of wrong player notification in sound popup?

I have uninstalled built-in music player (with orange icon on the pic below), but when playing music through another player it's icon and controls somehow appear back! This makes me feel uncomfortable,...
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Turning off notifications in Hera 5.1 doesn't seem to actually do anything

I have both bubbles and sounds turned off in the notifications control panel. But mail keep sending notification bubbles, as does chrome and spotify. I'd love to shut all that crap off for a while.
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Notifications wake my MacBook Pro after it's been closed and suspended

Is there any way to disable notifications on suspend so that my MacBook won't constantly wake up and drain the battery while it's sitting closed and idle?
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is there a way to change the time that notifications take to disappear?

I would like to change the time a notification takes to disappear, when I get mails in a row it fills the screen with notifications and it takes too long to disappear, i have to clone each one to make ...
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How to clear all notifications?

When there are some notifications on the screen, I can't click on the Clear All Notifications button (because they appear on top of this button). How do I solve this?
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How to restore notification icon for Automatic Suspend?

I've noticed that the icon on the Automatic Suspend notification had changed after installing the Zettlr application. I've noticed this happen with other apps as well. Is there a way to restore the ...
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PlexAmp, Notifications, wingpanel [duplicate]

Is anyone using Plexamp with Juno? Are you able to access its App Menu? Under Unity the app makes an icon in the notification area and you can right click to get a menu for switching libraries and ...
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Getting notifications from a deleted app

Hello everyone im running elementary OS 5.0 Juno Linux 4.15.0-47-generic, GTK+ 3.22.30 I downloaded about a week Badger 1.3.0. I uninstalled the app but I still get notifications from the app as if ...
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Battery low and full nothing notification

How to make notification when battery is low 15%-10% and how to make notification when battery already full in charge? Thanks in advance.
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Any way to configure notification duration?

I'm using Slack on elementaryOS and would like its notifications to stay on-screen for a longer duration so that I can read messages without switching focus to the app. Is there any way I can do this? ...
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Keyboard to show/expland all notifications

Is there a way to set a keyboard shortcut to show all notifications, i.e. expand the notification bell icon to show all missed notifications. Right now I have to click the bell icon to show all ...
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How to get badge notifications on the dock icon for third-party apps?

In my case it's Caprine (Facebook messenger app). In caprine.desktop I added X-GNOME-UsesNotifications=true and Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;Chat;, but I only get notifications in the notification ...
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Notification not show any button

how to fix notification not show button? When i receive file via bluetooth, notification is show but don't have any button for accept or cancel.
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Taskbar icons in juno dont work

in juno you can put the icons in the taskbar as in loki ?, example i install slack, discord, telegram... and the application icon does not come out. Any idea how to fix it?
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Change notification appearance timer

My question is 2 fold. How do I change the amount of time that notifications remain visible, i.e once they pop up in the top right, I want them to stay there longer before disappearing. Also, can ...
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notify-send icon: custom png

I'm trying to let a script send a couple of notifications with custom pngs as icons. This could be easily put off as a duplicate of https://askubuntu.com/a/351637/329400, but it isn't. In fact, I ...
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Notification sound change

This is not something I normally mess with but the notification pop sound really annoys me. I turned the volume down but do like to have a sound. Any advice on how this can be changed? I guess it's ...
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Can I generate a custom notification? [solved]

Is there a way to generate a custom notification, and how? I have a bash script that performs rsync backups, and this script runs as a cronjob. I want to have that script generate a notification to ...
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Is there a way to change Notification Settings globally? [closed]

I'd like to disable only certain aspects for ALL notifications. For example, I'd like to disable all Bubbles for notifications. It'd be nice to have a master switch for just that, but would like to ...
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Is it possible to hide notifications for a specific App?

I can see a lot of Elementary Apps in the notification settings, and I know that I can hide the notifications for those apps. But what about the other apps grouped in the category "Other"? Can I hide ...
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OS Loki notification bubbles [closed]

Since a while the notification bubbles over the application icon in the dock do not disappear anymore. It started with the AppCenter a few weeks ago. Usually, when there are new updates, there was a ...
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Notification Pop-up with with missing characters

Using fully updated Loki on a: Quad-Core Intel® Core™ i7-3537U CPU @ 2.00GHz A couple days ago notifications starting showing up with missing characters. This error happens across programs. The ...
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How to change the background color of the notifications popup? [duplicate]

I have installed the Flatabulous theme and the Paper icons on my OS but unfortunately the background color of the notifications popup is transparent, which is pretty hard to read it sometimes. How can ...
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Notifications are being identified as the wrong application [closed]

This has happened with a few applications but for example, I have have Slack installed but when I get a notification, it shows up as being from RubyMine. I'm curious why these aren't being properly ...
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Hangout/WhatsApp/Slack in notifications

On Mac, when I recive a message in Google Hangout, WhatsApp or Slack, an notify pop is shown, is this also possible in elementary?
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Is it possible to get a notification counter in the wingpanel?

So, hey, is it possible to show a notification counter on the bell icon in the wingpanel? Like a small circle with the number of new notifications?
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Is it possible to disable notifications sound on do not disturb mode?

In do not disturb mode, notifications don't appear but they do sound Is there anyway to disable their sound too?
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Behavior when plugging USB

When I plug in a USB stick or an external hard drive the system does absolutely nothing to notify me that this happened. The external device works perfectly fine, it's just that I don't get the ...
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Toogle do not disturb mode with keyboard shortcut?

Is there any way to set a keyboard shortcut to toggle do not disturb mode on/off?
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Notification appearing without icon for python script

This is a development related question and cross posted (for reference). I am using following code for showing notification, import subprocess as s import os img = os.path.abspath('icon.svg') s....
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Notification display length in loki

is there a way to change the display length of notifications in loki? I would like to see the notifications for a little longer. Thanks for your help Andreas
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f.lux stops working sometimes when a (native) notification arrives [closed]

I have installed f.lux on my computer. Sometimes suddenly it stops working and the screen turns into the original color, so I have to kill the process and restart it, and then it works again. Any way ...
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Is there a way to reorder systray indicator icons? [duplicate]

I have a hard disk free space indicator icon in the notification area that I would like to move. Is there a way to do that in elementary? THANKS!!
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Disable AppCenter dock reminder

From time to time, AppCenter will find an update and hang out in my dock with a red, circular "badge" overlay and a number. How can I deactivate this persistent dock notification? Separately, how do ...
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