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Disable notifications in Ubuntu Jaunty

Ubuntu Jaunty has gone completely overboard on the new notifications mechanism. I get pop-up notifications constantly and they make it really hard to concentrate on anything for more than 10 minutes. I finally had to disabled the notifications since they were so annoying. If you want to disable the notifications in Ubuntu Jaunty, you can do so by opening up a command line and entering the following command:

sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.disabled

Once you execute this command, restart your computer.

This just moves the serves file for the desktop notifications. So if you want to get the notifications back, you can do so with this command (and a restart):

sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.disabled /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service
Rating: 100% positive, 3 total Votes
Categories: Ubuntu notifications disable customization Jaunty
Added: on Apr 26, 2009 at 7:47 am
Added By: an anonymous user
Searches: notification jaunty ubuntu disable command

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To turn off IM log in/log out notifications, got to Pidgin Plugins, and configure Libnotify Popups. There, you can turn on or off what you want to be notified about.
– Added by an anonymous user on Apr 28, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Thanks a lot! That helped. But how did you figure that cryptic solution?! Well it atleast looks crazy for a novice like me. And I would like to be a lil less dumb in the future. :)
– Added by an anonymous user on May 06, 2009 at 12:56 am
It dodn't work...
– Added by an anonymous user on Aug 12, 2009 at 7:50 am
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