How to disable notification popups?

[wwp]

Hello killermoehre,


On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:02:18 +0100 killermoehre <killermoehre at gmx.net> wrote:

> Am Mo 20 Jan 2014 11:19:37 CET schrieb wwp:
> > Hello killermoehre,
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:55:17 +0100 killermoehre <killermoehre at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Am 20.01.2014 09:38, schrieb wwp:
> >>> Hello there,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I've uninstalled xfce4-notifyd and notifications at desktop corners
> >>> look different, but they still show up. I couldn't find a way to
> >>> disable them from the settings or I'm blind.
> >>>
> >>> Any hint?
> >>>
> >>> (I want to disable them 'cause I'm getting a notification popup for
> >>> every sound that is played, huuu :-/)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>
> >> So you have another notifyd installed, maybe gnome ones. Deinstall it,
> >> too, if you can. Some programs require a notifyd and, so on is always
> >> isntalled by the package manager.
> >
> > Do you mean that if only a gnome notification system is *installed*
> > even if it's not running, it could interfere?
> >
> > Yes, GNOME is installed and I used to use it before I switched to Xfce.
> > No 'notify(d)' process is running, and I don't know any gnome
> > notification program that could be running (no gnome-* program involved
> > in notifications or sound is running).
> 
> The notifyd is triggered by dbus. As long one is available (i.e. 
> installed and anounced at dbus), it starts.

Right! Apparently the noisy notifications were due to xfce4-volumed,
which I disabled and I don't get them when pulse audio is playing a wav
anymore (as expected).


> >> Please define what you mean by "notification for every sound that is
> >> played".
> >
> > That's a very good point: every time skype plays a sound (pulseaudio),
> > every time I run `aplay`. Sound using mplayer or audacious is not doing
> > that. Apart from this I don't have any desktop sound thru Xfce, I don't
> > know if that's normal or not, but it's not the topic here.
> 
> And what says the notification? Since this is your real problem (and 
> you don't have it in gnome), we should catch this on.

It says exactly what the notification says when you adjust volume level:
it indicates the volume level %. Does it help?


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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