Disable notifications in MATE desktop

[yoburtu]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to disable desktop notifications in MATE desktop?.

Best regards.

[ibbill]

For Firefox

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/no-notifications/


For Chrome

https://support.google.com/chrome/answe ... ktop&hl=en

[Schultz]

I think the OP is talking about popups from Mate, not a browser.

I searched but can't find a way to turn it off.

[roblm]

Use this command in the Terminal:
gsettings set org.mate.caja.preferences show-notifications false

To reverse: gsettings set org.mate.caja.preferences show-notifications true


Or if you prefer using a GUI, install dconf Editor: apt install dconf-editor

Open the program and go to /org/mate/caja/preferences and change the setting for show-notifications to OFF.

[yoburtu]

I think the OP is talking about popups from Mate, not a browser.

I searched but can't find a way to turn it off.

Hi,

That’s right, they are the mate desktop notifications, not browsers.

Best regards.

[yoburtu]

Use this command in the Terminal:
gsettings set org.mate.caja.preferences show-notifications false

To reverse: gsettings set org.mate.caja.preferences show-notifications true


Or if you prefer using a GUI, install dconf Editor: apt install dconf-editor

Open the program and go to /org/mate/caja/preferences and change the setting for show-notifications to OFF.

Ok, thanks. But, this setting is only for Caja or for all notifications?.

Regards.

[gm10]

Ok, thanks. But, this setting is only for Caja or for all notifications?.

Only for Caja. Disabling all desktop notifications is not easily possible in the MATE version distributed with Linux Mint. You could delete the notifications service:

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sudo rm -v /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.mate.Notifications.service

but it will come back with updates to the package.

If you're running the latest MATE (i.e. not Mint's version) then you can disable them via the Popup Notifications tool in the menu:

Maybe in Linux Mint 20.

[yoburtu]

Ok, thanks. But, this setting is only for Caja or for all notifications?.

Only for Caja. Disabling all desktop notifications is not easily possible in the MATE version distributed with Linux Mint. You could delete the notifications service:

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sudo rm -v /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.mate.Notifications.service

but it will come back with updates to the package.

If you're running the latest MATE (i.e. not Mint's version) then you can disable them via the Popup Notifications tool in the menu:

Maybe in Linux Mint 20.

Hi,

Thanks you. I use Arch Linux with Mate Desktop 1.22.2. I don’t have that option.

Best regards.

[gm10]

As I said, it's a recent addition, older MATE releases don't have it. Just remove the service as I suggested, should be in the same place on Arch.

And next time best ask in the Arch forums instead of the Linux Mint forums.

[yoburtu]

As I said, it's a recent addition, older MATE releases don't have it. Just remove the service as I suggested, should be in the same place on Arch.

And next time best ask in the Arch forums instead of the Linux Mint forums.

Yes!. I asked too but they still don’t answer, but I thought it was a common feature of any distro In MATE, hahaha!.

Thanks you.

[trapperjohn]

Yes!. I asked too but they still don’t answer

Well.... I gave it a try.

Trapperjohn (alias heroldman)

PS: I have several VMs running on Linux systems with the Mate DE at work. These machines auto-start the VMs at boot and run it full-screen so the habitual Win users are happy (in fact, they don't even know). The VMs are Win 10 machines that must have access to attached Dymo printers. Everything works but, at startup, a notification about a missing printer driver confuses the hapless users. Fortunately, after the VM fully starts, the notification goes away.