Questions tagged [notifications]
An active reminder of video or audio to alert of a condition
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Why does terminal say: "You have mail"?
Any idea why my Mac terminal says:
You have mail in /var/mail/lofye
How can I make it stop saying that every time I open terminal?
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Is there a way to show notification from bash script in Ubuntu?
Most of the application can show nicely formatted notification on events that appear on top right corner of the screen. I'm about to write a bash script that will do fairy long processing in the ...
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View past notifications in Windows 10 and 11?
New with Windows 10 seems to be the Notification Area. Now, I've seen a few notifications (in the Action Center). The problem is that I haven't understood any of them (actively using computers for 30 ...
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How can I trigger a notification when a job/process ends?
The place I work at has commands that take a long time to execute.
Is there a command/utility that I can use to notify me when the command execution is over? It could be a popup window or maybe a ...
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Is there any way to view Chrome browser notifications history?
I get Chrome notifications from several websites and they work when I don't even have any tabs open for those sites.
But sometimes I get these Chrome notifications when I am not at my desk or looking ...
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How to ring the system bell from command line?
I'm using some Bash scripts under Linux that require some time to complete; I'd like to add at the end of them a command to ring the system bell when those tasks are done, so I can be notified.
What'...
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Disabling the "Enable notifications?" popup in Firefox
If I'm on a page that has web notifications (like Slack or others), Firefox asks me if I want to enable them. However, my choices are "Yes" or "Ignore for now". The problem is, if I select "Ignore", ...
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How to view previous Firefox notifications?
I got a message notification from Firefox, but it wasn't on the screen for long. I'd like to read what it said again. How do I view previous notifications?
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"You need to fix your Microsoft account" notification
The "You need to fix your Microsoft account" notification pops up every 10 minutes with the new Anniversary Update. This notification appears because I am not signed into my Microsoft account. I do ...
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Disable "Window is Ready" Notification in Gnome Shell?
It's just annoying. I know what happens on my system and if I want to check a software, I can do it on my own. Though I don't know how to disable that. Turning off every notification panel doesn't ...
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Pop-Up Notification when time reaches 4:00PM?
I was wondering if there was a way to display a notification or something from the command line at a certain time. Like when the clock strikes 4:00pm. It would be nice if it would display it using ...
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How do I disable the beep/bell sound in iTerm2 in macbook?
The shell in macbook makes annoying beep/bell/boop sounds.
For the OEM terminal, this answer works on disabling this annoying sounds:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19166539/i-want-to-disable-...
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Is there a way to dismiss notifications using a keyboard shortcut in Windows 10?
I'm talking about the notifications that appear in the bottom right corner and disappear by themselves in a few seconds. However, they sometimes can take up a lot of space and get in the way, which is ...
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How to disable thunderbird notification
I run Ubuntu Hardy and Thunderbird version 2.0.0.23 (not tagging for linux/ubuntu since I think is a Thunderbird thing, but you can re-tag if appropriate).
I am really tired of the email ...
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How can I stop the "Get Office 365" notifications in Windows 10?
I recently upgraded to Windows 10, and every couple days I have been getting this annoying notification that is basically an ad for Office 365.
It seems to come from an app called "Get Office 365".
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RSS notification in System tray [closed]
I am looking for a tiny windows app that will sit in my system tray and check certain RSS feeds periodically, upon new RSS update the items should be displayed as pop-up (or balloons).
There are ...
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Disabling Realtek audio notification on Windows 10
I have HP's Bang & Olufsen stuff factory installed. This appears to be built on top of Realtek HD Audio manager, yet the sound manager is still B&O. I want to disable the realtek notification ...
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How do I set Thunderbird to notify me of new emails in only certain folders?
I use Gmail with Thunderbird, which is working great, except for the part where I get a new email. It shows me the new email twice when notifying because it appears in both the inbox and All Mail ...
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On windows 7 my volume icon is missing from the system tray
So unexpectedly my volume control is missing from the system tray on Windows 7. I goto the start menu and type volume and choose "Show or hide volume (speaker) icon on the taskbar" and it's disabled ...
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Notifications won't open when I click on them on Windows 10
I get my notifications on my Action Center on Windows 10.
When I click on them to get to their website to actually read the notification, it just disappears and it won't take me to the website.
How ...
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Notification area Volume icon is stuck off
On Windows 7 x64, the system Volume icon in the notification area/tray on the taskbar is missing. It was working recently, but it does not show currently. I have two audio devices - some on-board ...
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How can I dismiss all Chrome notifications with a keyboard shortcut?
Does Chrome have a keyboard shortcut - or the ability to bind one - that lets me dismiss notifications?
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Is it possible to disable the "scan and fix" message when inserting an SD Card?
Every time I insert the SD card from my camera into the card reader, I get this dialog:
Of course there is no need to scan it. Is there a way to disable it?
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Turn off all notifications for Notification Suggestions
From time to time I get this notification from Windows 11:
If I want to turn it off (by clicking on ...), the option is gray:
So, how to turn it off?
The following settings are turned off under my ...
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How to disable flashing icons in Windows 10 taskbar
My question is the same as this one but for Windows 10 instead of Windows 7.
Is there a way to stop taskbar icons from flashing orange to get my attention? I find it very distracting. I have tried ...
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How can I configure desktop notification display time in Google Chrome?
Recently Gmail introduced an HTML5-based desktop notification feature for Google Chrome users (see this). It's very useful, however, the notifications disappear too quickly (in about 5 seconds) and I ...
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How to make Windows 10 notifications appear in the top right of the desktop?
Is it possible to configure Windows 10 notifications to appear in the top right of the desktop? How?
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Change location of Google Chrome notification message
Is there any way to change the location of Google Chrome notification message?
It was used to display on the top-right edge of my screen. Suddenly it started to show the notifications always in the ...
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How do I force Windows 10 notification duration to be less than 5 seconds?
If you go into settings > Ease of Access in Windows 10, you can adjust the duration of time for which notifications appear in the bottom left hand corner of your screen. The minimum duration there ...
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How can I send a notification to a Windows 10 computer from the command line
I'd like to create/send native Windows notifications from the command-line as part of a few automated tasks that I have set up, both on my local machine and for similar tasks on my home server. Both ...
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Slack notifications do not work
I have the Slack Windows app on my Windows 10 machine. I noticed that the notifications don't work properly. In 'Preferences', I click 'Send test notification', but it doesn't send one. When I had ...
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How to completely disable push notifications in Firefox?
I am using Firefox (version 58.0.1) and for awhile now, Firefox and other browsers have implemented this feature known as 'Push Notifications.'
It now seems like every site wants to 'Push' ...
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Make Windows "Show icon and notifications" by default, but let you hide some
In Windows 7 if you have the Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar option disabled, the setting for individual applications defaults to Only show notifications.
Is there a magical ...
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How to disable popup messages in Windows 8?
Windows 8 keeps popping up irritating messages at all odd times at the top of the screen:
These seem to be like some sort of new balloon tips. How do I get rid of these permanently?
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How to disable nagging "try edge" notifications?
Every so often (ranging from a few days to a few hours between events) when I am using Chrome, Windows pops up a notification giving me some stupid reason to use Microsoft Edge instead of Chrome. ...
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notification when a user comes online
Is there a way to configure Microsoft Lync 2010 to produce a notification when a specific user comes online? Or becomes available?
For example, I want to be notified when John Doe logs into Lync or ...
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Get Google Chrome to run in the background again on Windows 10
Ever since my upgrade from Windows 8.1 to 10 (and a healthy amount of Chrome updates that followed) I can't seem to get the old running in the background feature back that came with the Chrome ...
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Firefox addon to imitate Google Chrome's built-in notification system
I'm using Mozilla Firefox 4 and I would like to be able to receive notifications similar to Google Chrome's built-in notification system, like so:
Is there an addon like this or similar?
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Activate gmail notifications when chrome is closed
I would like to do so that Chrome shows me Gmail notifications when I get a new message even when Chrome is closed. I activated them in the Gmail settings but I only receive them when Gmail is opened. ...
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Disable Skype "Update your Background Apps setting" notification without disabling all Skype notifications
Whenever I put my Windows 10 device into battery saver mode, I get the following message:
Update your Background Apps setting
You may be missing Skype calls and messages due to your current settings.
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Microsoft Teams – Notification when someone becomes available
In Microsoft Teams, is it possible to get a notification when another user change status from busy to available?
Let’s say I want to send a non-urgent message to my coworker Jane. I see that her ...
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notify-send to other user on the same system
Is it possible to use notify-send to send messages to other users on the system?
preferably to a specified user, but system wide would work aswell.
Ubuntu/Debian with libnotify installed
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How do I find what program is keeping the taskbar from auto-hiding?
The name says it all. Taskbar is set to auto-hide, taskbar does not auto-hide, obviously, I want it to auto-hide. Some program is keeping it from doing that. Sometimes I find the culprit quickly if ...
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How to write to KDE's OSD or notification from console?
How can I write, from a bash script, to KDE's OSD or notification area? I am using KDE 4.5, and basically what I want is my script to report some stuff when it is run. Since I run the script by a ...
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Windows 10 Action Center completely Missing
I recently installed Windows 10 Enterprise activated it and updated it.
I find it really annoying because I got no Action Center (or Notification Center) at all. I have seen lots of videos there is a ...
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Will I know when the Windows 10 files are being downloaded in the background or not?
After reserving the free Windows 10 Upgrade, and once the download is available, will I be notified if the download is taking place, or will it take place without my knowledge?
The reason I am asking ...
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How do I add/remove an entry in the Indicator Applet in Gnome?
I can't seem to find a guide or reference on how to configure the 'indicator-applet' (aka MessagingMenu) that came about in the 9.04 release of Ubuntu. It's that little mail icon that lists messaging ...
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Disable "press 'esc' to exit full screen" in flash videos
This is not a duplicate of this question
I watch videos on YouTube, Netflix, etc. Whenever I enter full-screen mode, I get the annoying "You've entered full screen mode. Press 'esc' to exit full ...
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Force Microsoft Teams to use OS-native Notifications
Using Microsoft Teams, I get ugly purple no-padding notifications on my Desktop:
In addition to being non-standard, these alerts do not respect my system's Do Not Disturb settings.
How can I force ...
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Alert after long running shell script
When I have wait for slow commands (operations on large databases for example), I start doing something else and often don't notice for a long time that it has finished, wasting valuable time. I am ...
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