NotifyOSDconfig – Simple GUI for Customizing NotifyOSD

June 12, 2010 · General · Email This Post

Canonical's on-screen-display notification agent, implementing the freedesktop.org Desktop Notifications Specification with semi-transparent click-through bubbles.Notify OSD presents these notifications as ephemeral overlays, which can be clicked through so they don't block your work. It queues notifications, to prevent them from flooding your screen. And as well as handling standard notification updates, Notify OSD introduces the idea of appending — allowing notifications to grow over time, for example in the case of instant messages from a particular person.
NotifyOSD Configuration is a simple GUI for you to Customizing your NotifyOSD.

First you need to install patched NotifyoSD using the following commands from your terminal

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:leolik/leolik

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:amandeepgrewal/notifyosdconfig

Update source list

sudo apt-get update

Now install notifyosdconfig using the following command from your terminal

sudo apt-get install notifyosdconfig

Using notifyosdconfig

Open notifyosdconfig from Applications -> Accessories -> NotifyOSD Configuration

Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen here you can configure notification bubble settings

notification text settings

Sample notification


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1 Comment to “NotifyOSDconfig – Simple GUI for Customizing NotifyOSD”

  1. Ben says:
    June 29, 2010 at 9:55 am

    It’s broken now! What happened?
    Should be built in with NotifyOSD in my opinion.

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