Disable Pidgin Pop-Up Notification System
I’ll admit that, so far, I’m not a big fan of the 9.04 notification system. It does remind me a lot of OS X “Growl”, but the lack of customization options make it frustrating at times. I do hope that the developers continue to improve on the system as I think it could be a very nice tool given a little more attention.
In the meantime I have disabled Pidgin from using it. I don’t need every inbound IM and status change to be displayed for all to see.
Disable Pidgin Notifications
This “annoyance” can be easily fixed by disabling the libnotify plugin within the Pidgin plugins manager. To disable this system go to Tools > Plugins and untick the checkbox next to “Libnotify Popups”.
Also, if you’d prefer, you can try to customize the pop-up behavior by selecting the “Configure Plugin” button.
Hopefully being able to customize this or disable it altogether will make the new notification system livable until some improvements are made.
Very easy!thanks!
Or, if you want the whole notification system gone, open a terminal and type:
sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.disabled
Then restart. No more notifications. Ever.
Awesome. Turning this off was like waking up from a nightmare* where I thought I'd been killed and waking up and realizing I'm still alive.
* Yes Windoze feels like that, no exaggeration
Thanks! Exactly what I needed to know to choose which things should “growl” at me.
soooooo maaaaaany thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i already went nuts with it!!!!!!
thanx a lot, … this pidgin pop up was soooooooooooooo……… annoying !!!
:muuaahhh
Awesome post, disabling notifications is so unobvious
Thank you!! Those popup notifications were soooooooo annoying.
Thanks! I looked high and low in the preferences … didn’t think to look at the plugins.
Many thanks!
Does not work for me… its driving me mad!
Thanks a lot ! These notifications were freakin’ me out ….
Thanks! i Hated this Notifications