Comments on: How to restore notifications Position in Ubuntu 9.10 as they did in Ubuntu 9.04

By: hyperzahranism

hyperzahranism — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:49:38 +0000

Ubuntu-geek

you are my hero, thanks for the excellent, simple tutorial

By: Paolo

Paolo — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:28:16 +0000

The old 8.10 way was much better. Notifications at the top are bad because they interfere with window decoration icons and menus. The Ubuntu guys should stop copying OSX, which IMHO has a nice to see interface but a bad usability.

By: Theodore

Theodore — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:20:21 +0000

Thank you so much for this! I always thought the notifications looked broken in Koala. This looks so much better.

By: kuna236

kuna236 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:22:54 +0000

I personally like it way more than the repo-version. This version has a better handle on multiple notifications, and whichever one was put up first, that’s the one that gets the top… Makes sense to me.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:25:44 +0000

Thanks so much! This has been driving me crazy since updating to Karmic!

By: cqb

cqb — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:39:47 +0000

Thanks.

@TZ:
I’m with you, I’ve been using Ubuntu since breezy and love it, but the gnome devs want powerspanking.

Preferences “confuse” users, so we lost screensaver prefs, we get minimal prefs when they are present and now the notification gets moved and if you want to move it… tough.

If preferences confuse users, wtf is that steaming pile of gnome-shell gonna do x_O

By: tz

tz — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:50:57 +0000

It isn’t cool if you are doing something and the notification blocks what you are doing - they are on there far too long, and mouseover makes them disappear so there is no way to dismiss them earlier if you need to.

I probably wouldn’t mind if it was adjustable (they wouldn’t bother me at the bottom, or if they were only on for a second), or if I could click them to dismiss them.

Like the rest of Karmic, they put early betas, don’t test them, dont’ let you adjust them (grub2, polkit-1, now notify-OSD).

“I like it and it works for me” isn’t a reason.

By: ATOzTOA

ATOzTOA — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:33:48 +0000

I like the way it is now… it is cool…

_ATOzTOA

By: nimbus

nimbus — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:50:24 +0000

Going to synaptic package manager and searching for notify-osd then ‘package > force version’ worked for me

By: Neojames

Neojames — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:38:18 +0000

Remove the package in synaptic, I cant remember what it was called but if you click origins then local/(somthing) then it should be there.

By: nimbus

nimbus — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:40:01 +0000

I installed this impulsively without thinking of the consequences and would like to revert. How would I go about doing this in 9.10?

By: KenBW2

KenBW2 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:07:51 +0000

@Tom Wright

Yep, I gave NotifyOSD a try but it doesn’t give me any non-aesthetic benefit over the old system

FYI I reverted by uninstalling NotifyOSD and installing notification-daemon

By: Tom Wright

Tom Wright — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:23:22 +0000

@KenBW2

If you really want to…

apt:libnotify-bin

By: Neojames

Neojames — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:51:10 +0000

Thanks for the fix, the only things I don’t like in karmic is that flash doesn’t work and I always miss notifications as I’m used to them appearing at the top!

By: Findarato

Findarato — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:17:35 +0000

It’s actually useful to have it where it is in 9.10. It doesn’t get in the way of the “close, minimize, resize” window buttons and leaves space for other notifications as dexae points out

By: dexae

dexae — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:55:48 +0000

That space is left blank intentionally because is for other notificacions like eject cd, volume, bright….

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:01:32 +0000

and… if notify-osd is updated via regular update, you won’t get the update?

By: KenBW2

KenBW2 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:26:01 +0000

How do I move back to the notification system from Hardy?