{"id":3246,"date":"2014-04-30T13:19:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T13:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2015-08-26T06:47:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T06:47:27","slug":"customize-on-screen-notification-ubuntu-1404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/customize-on-screen-notification-ubuntu-1404\/","title":{"rendered":"Customize Notify-OSD (On Screen Notifications) in Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to customize your on screen notification bubbles? <\/p>\n<p>Well, there&#8217;s an enhanced version of Notify-OSD available in Launchpad that enables you to:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>change notification location<\/li>\n<li>close bubble on click<\/li>\n<li>change color, width, height or other options of bubble<\/li>\n<li>add timeout<\/li>\n<li>Stops the bubble from fading out when the mouse pointer hovers over it<\/li>\n<li>Used Dash background color for bubble background color<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/custom-notify-osd.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/custom-notify-osd.png\" alt=\"customize notification bubbles\" width=\"540\" height=\"259\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/custom-notify-osd.png 540w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/custom-notify-osd-300x143.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>To install the Notify-OSD with additional features:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:leolik\/leolik\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install notify-osd<\/pre>\n<p>Then restart the daemon to apply the changes:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">pkill notify-osd<\/pre>\n<p><b>To install a graphical tool to configure Notify-OSD:<\/b><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard\/webupd8\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install notifyosdconfig<\/pre>\n<p><b>UPDATE 2015-8:<\/b> For Ubuntu 15.04, you may install Notify-OSD graphical configuration tool via:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gsn\/grabbelkiste\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install notifyosdconfig<\/pre>\n<p>Launch &#8220;NotifyOSD Configuration&#8221; from Unity Dash and now you&#8217;re able to configure your notification bubbles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/configure-notification.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/configure-notification.jpg\" alt=\"configure on screen notification \" width=\"468\" height=\"308\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/configure-notification.jpg 468w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/configure-notification-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>To change the bubble location, run:<\/b><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">gsettings set com.canonical.notify-osd gravity NUMBER<\/pre>\n<p>Where the NUMBER can be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1 \u2013 top-right corner<br \/>\n2 \u2013 middle-right<br \/>\n3 \u2013 bottom-right corner<br \/>\n4 \u2013 bottom-left corner<br \/>\n5 \u2013 middle-left<br \/>\n6 \u2013 top-left corner<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to customize your on screen notification bubbles? Well, there&#8217;s an enhanced version of Notify-OSD available in Launchpad that enables you to: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; change notification location close bubble on click change color, width, height or other options of bubble add timeout Stops the bubble from fading out when the mouse pointer hovers over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1063,855],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-notify-osd","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}