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Patched NotifyOSD With Close On Click And Other Customizations Available For Ubuntu 12.10, 13.04

<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/notifyosd-min.png"><img alt="Configurable notifyosd notifications Ubuntu" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/notifyosd-min_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The patched NotifyOSD maintained by Leolik has been updated recently to support Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. Update: the PPA now supports Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) too.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Using this package, Ubuntu users can <b>customize the NotifyOSD notifications bubbles color and size, position on the screen, close the notifications on click and tweak many other options</b>.</div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Here's an old video in which you can see the patched NotifyOSD and the tool to configure it - NotifyOSDConfig -, in action:</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1CAWU18JkjE" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CAWU18JkjE">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install the patched NotifyOSD and NotifyOSDConfig in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/notifyosd-configurable.png"><img alt="Configurable notifyosd notifications Ubuntu" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/notifyosd-configurable_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The instructions below aren't just for Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.04 - they work for Ubuntu 12.04 or 11.10 as well.</b></div><br /><b>1.</b> Install the patched NotifyOSD for Ubuntu:<br /><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:leolik/leolik <br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get upgrade<br />sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin<br />pkill notify-osd</code></pre><br /><br /><b>2.</b> Install NotifyOSDConfig (a GUI to configure the patched NotifyOSD):<br /><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install notifyosdconfig</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Now start NotifyOSDConfig and start tweaking the NotifyOSD notification bubbles.<br /><br />The close-on-click feature is not enabled by default, so if you want to use this, enable it from NotifyOSDConfig!</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">NotifyOSDConfig doesn't come with settings for moving the notification bubbles, so you must do this manually, by using the command below:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>gsettings set com.canonical.notify-osd gravity [number]</code></pre>where is [number] can be:<br /><br /><pre class="source-code"><code>1 - top-right corner<br />2 - middle-right<br />3 - bottom-right corner<br />4 - bottom-left corner<br />5 - middle-left<br />6 - top-left corner</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to <a href="https://launchpad.net/~leolik">Sukochev Roman (Leolik)</a> for maintaining the patched NotifyOSD.</i></div>

Patched NotifyOSD With Close On Click And Other Customizations Available For Ubuntu 12.10, 13.04

The patched NotifyOSD maintained by Leolik has been updated recently to support Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. Update: the PPA now supports U...

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Get Ubuntu NotifyOSD Notifications To Show Up On Active Monitor In Multi-Screen Environments [Quick Tip]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91vL4LxbC7aDv6PcAcQdK5EcW33ORV-kZIQWrSDztTOd_BUnlOTAFzt-WlK41Ue2A0-9s_lpXJp7a3FjebGXO0XHuBhQYqrpMXgw1oICUaNNrFrX2o584vnVe0WflmKqBDwH7djmBcxQG/s1600/notification.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="notifyosd notification" border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91vL4LxbC7aDv6PcAcQdK5EcW33ORV-kZIQWrSDztTOd_BUnlOTAFzt-WlK41Ue2A0-9s_lpXJp7a3FjebGXO0XHuBhQYqrpMXgw1oICUaNNrFrX2o584vnVe0WflmKqBDwH7djmBcxQG/s320/notification.png" title="notifyosd notification" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>By default, the Ubuntu NotifyOSD notification bubbles are displayed on only one monitor in multi-monitor setups, which might be useful in some situations, but it doesn't make sense in most cases.</b></div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">For instance, if you're working on something on one monitor and get a notification on the other one, you're almost never going to see it and... maybe it's an important notification and you don't want to miss it. So here's a quick tip on <b>how to set the NotifyOSD notifications to follow the mouse in multi-screen environments</b> so they show up on the display which contains the active window.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Firstly, if you don't have dconf-tools already, install it using the command below:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install dconf-tools</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfgsnV6VneVcgGBLTg0h2Wlh4Kc4pxYfHzvtml2snfYprnkwi1lcUU3yBZzDAQ_MSOdzlTdRV94aF6Bcj5bmr6K6T9f0LCuWov8XZUFpaFRa8ePKdXlDqRzQEUmZpaQ26dvcw8NJYIoYNy/s1600/dconf-notifyosd.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="dconf notifyosd" border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfgsnV6VneVcgGBLTg0h2Wlh4Kc4pxYfHzvtml2snfYprnkwi1lcUU3yBZzDAQ_MSOdzlTdRV94aF6Bcj5bmr6K6T9f0LCuWov8XZUFpaFRa8ePKdXlDqRzQEUmZpaQ26dvcw8NJYIoYNy/s320/dconf-notifyosd.png" title="dconf notifyosd" width="320" /></a></div><br />Then run dconf-editor, navigate to <b><i>apps > notifyosd</i></b> and change the "<b>multihead-mode</b>" value from "dont-focus-follow" to "<b>focus-follow</b>".<br /><br />That's it, the notification bubbles should now show up on the monitor you're currently working on (has the active window).</div><br /><br />

Get Ubuntu NotifyOSD Notifications To Show Up On Active Monitor In Multi-Screen Environments [Quick Tip]

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Schedule Alarms / Reminders In Ubuntu With Indicator Remindor

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7xbaa6A6zTJtAo3eytkjMuNLAUgWJCRMzQ5zWab6tgE8GHDUfUQmtmfV63loVDzZRRredxK-Hr6cbrg8wUW5vBe3aLYfp9Eq46UdSrJPOMXaX3C4-XdyIb_Pmiz3JO_q3Ms-AT24JvHKc/s1600/indicator-remindor.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="indicator remindor" border="0" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7xbaa6A6zTJtAo3eytkjMuNLAUgWJCRMzQ5zWab6tgE8GHDUfUQmtmfV63loVDzZRRredxK-Hr6cbrg8wUW5vBe3aLYfp9Eq46UdSrJPOMXaX3C4-XdyIb_Pmiz3JO_q3Ms-AT24JvHKc/s320/indicator-remindor.png" title="indicator remindor" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Indicator Remindor is an Ubuntu appindicator that lets you easily schedule reminders or set alarms and it notifies you using notifications, a sound or you can set a custom command.  </b><b>The reminders / alarms can be set to run only once or every day, every month and so on. </b></div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">There are many situations in which you'll find Indicator Remindor useful: you can use it to set reminders about important events, to get a notification when your favourite TV show is about to start or to wake you up in the morning, etc.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Using Indicator Remindor is very simple: start the appindicator and click "Add" and you'll see a window like this:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJoirnhbzBaZSIWQ7y8jvjRsSuUGK4IIBt7ZMycEUeE3NEnR-SRtBWxtX9yevgQJhzAWUfdeILqwTYhvN9-ZG-1qE0vsR2WytcyKnsQzmIi-HjUsSMz7Osd8sd3JqdXz6B6XF53kRbvoEj/s1600/indicator-remindor_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="indicator remindor" border="0" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJoirnhbzBaZSIWQ7y8jvjRsSuUGK4IIBt7ZMycEUeE3NEnR-SRtBWxtX9yevgQJhzAWUfdeILqwTYhvN9-ZG-1qE0vsR2WytcyKnsQzmIi-HjUsSMz7Osd8sd3JqdXz6B6XF53kRbvoEj/s320/indicator-remindor_2.png" title="indicator remindor" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here, you can set the time when the alarm / reminder should run, set a label for your new reminder, enable/disable sound (and select a sound file) or notification, an option to loop the sound, set a custom command and so on. <b>Under "date", you can set either a numeric date like "07/12/2012" or "today", "every day", "next monday", etc.</b> - you can see all the supported options by opening the Indicator Remindor help (press F1 or open it from the menu).</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also set a quick alarm to run in a given number of minutes by selecting "Quick Add". </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">From the Remindor main interface you can select to postpone an alarm by 30 minutes, by clicking  the "Postpone" button. There's also an indicator menu entry that lets you stop the alarm sound.</div><br /><h2>Install Indicator Remindor in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Indicator Remindor is available for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin only right now. To add its PPA and install it, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bhdouglass/indicator-remindor<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install indicator-remindor</code></pre><br />If you encounter bugs, report them @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-remindor">Launchpad</a>.

Schedule Alarms / Reminders In Ubuntu With Indicator Remindor

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How To Change Notifications Position In Cinnamon

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP6Rc60uCG1g-t3sGxn5qRhN4yJD2SyIt8d1WwIWrE2DW6AHJJAij5u9FcaaHP242lWTYdbx1HrWqCi1gHlym_SI6ldkIE-hw776T8RjmoMf6-hTXFbNPIaHxLcvRwzFdvAUCWqzI_JDzn/s1600/cinnamon-bottom-notification-full.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cinnamon bottom notifications" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP6Rc60uCG1g-t3sGxn5qRhN4yJD2SyIt8d1WwIWrE2DW6AHJJAij5u9FcaaHP242lWTYdbx1HrWqCi1gHlym_SI6ldkIE-hw776T8RjmoMf6-hTXFbNPIaHxLcvRwzFdvAUCWqzI_JDzn/s320/cinnamon-bottom-notification-full.png" title="cinnamon bottom notifications" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Cinnamon doesn't have an option to change the notification position on the screen yet, but you can do this by editing the theme CSS code </b>(cinnamon.css theme file)<b>.</b></div><br /><a name="more"></a>Let's change the notifications position. <b>If you're using the default Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon edition theme (Nightlife Graphite)</b>, you have to edit the "<i>/usr/share/themes/Nightlife - Graphite/cinnamon/cinnamon.css</i>" file so open a terminal and run the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>gksu gedit "/usr/share/themes/Nightlife - Graphite/cinnamon/cinnamon.css"</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>If you're using the default Cinnamon theme</b> (used by default in LMDE), use the following command instead:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>gksu gedit /usr/share/cinnamon/theme/cinnamon.css</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><b>For other Cinnamon themes:</b>  </i><i>the <i>cinnamon.css</i> file path depends on the theme you're using (it's in the "cinnamon" folder inside the theme directory). To find out the cinnamon.css file path, open Nautilus and navigate to /usr/share/themes/ - here you'll find all the available themes -, double click the directory for the theme you're using you'll find a "cinnamon" folder where there's a "cinnamon.css" file which is the file you have to edit to change the notifications position.</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy_AwgMROkC6G7JeeGgEu1iWqZJ-AJYwzCKuxvtETF5F0CMAa64XYNA7xpofWGc73twFPBnpw-3tLWCSULAJCpCcFswoKc-IbzVKUbw8YqkIBHGNkyt1n4nMVAMoW52c4iUg7fAQwCPB-6/s1600/cinnamon-css-file.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cinnamon.css" border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy_AwgMROkC6G7JeeGgEu1iWqZJ-AJYwzCKuxvtETF5F0CMAa64XYNA7xpofWGc73twFPBnpw-3tLWCSULAJCpCcFswoKc-IbzVKUbw8YqkIBHGNkyt1n4nMVAMoW52c4iUg7fAQwCPB-6/s320/cinnamon-css-file.png" title="cinnamon.css" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>Then search for the following code:</b><br /><pre class="source-code"><code>margin-from-top-edge-of-screen: 30px;</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcMqAPlazZ5QqpHYNGyL-jJYG0eGpXokH1hE-EyZyAGIFc4Gvua_xoXBzK91mZEqhi6zWXlrf9vGNSn6ncvZ8YxWtHLNBrvsJnlkKrhvA2zYE7KP1oCnFu1brUh858L2HnwAyR0JfnCfLr/s1600/cinnamon-bottom-notifications.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cinnamon notifications bottom" border="0" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcMqAPlazZ5QqpHYNGyL-jJYG0eGpXokH1hE-EyZyAGIFc4Gvua_xoXBzK91mZEqhi6zWXlrf9vGNSn6ncvZ8YxWtHLNBrvsJnlkKrhvA2zYE7KP1oCnFu1brUh858L2HnwAyR0JfnCfLr/s320/cinnamon-bottom-notifications.png" title="cinnamon notifications bottom" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>This is the margin from the top edge of the screen so this value changes the notifications position vertically</b> - change its value to whatever you want. If, for instance, you want the notifications to be displayed at the bottom right, you can enter the value of your screen vertical width minus 100 pixels (example: if you have a 1920x1080 screen resolution, your screen width is 1080px, so you would use 980 (1080-100) as the value).</div><br /><b>If you want to change the horizontal notifications position, search for:</b><br /><pre class="source-code"><code>margin-from-right-edge-of-screen: 20px;</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Just like its name says, this is the margin from the right edge of the screen. Once again, depending on your screen resolution, change its value to whatever you like.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Once you change the values, save the file, then open Cinnamon Settings and under Themes, select a different theme, then switch back to the theme you were using. This basically applies the changes so you can see the tweaked notifications in action.</b><b><br /></b></div><br /><b>Now, to send a test notification, firstly install libnotify-bin:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin</code></pre><b>And send a test notification using the following command:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>notify-send --icon=gtk-add "Test notification" "This is the message body"</code></pre><br /><i>For tweaking the default notifications in Ubuntu, see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/closable-movable-notifyosd.html">Closable / Movable NotifyOSD Notifications Available For Ubuntu 12.04</a></i><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://blog.desdelinux.net/cambiar-la-posicion-de-las-notificaciones-en-cinnamon/">DesdeLinux.net</a></i></div>

How To Change Notifications Position In Cinnamon

Cinnamon doesn't have an option to change the notification position on the screen yet, but you can do this by editing the theme CSS code...

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