VLC still notifying despite “SHow media change popup” being set as “Never”.

[Martin Constantino–Bodin]

This is very frustrating: Alt-tab on my window manager behaves very very badly if VLC is sending notifications (basically it forces me to switch to VLC, which is almost never what I want when VLC is playing audio). I have disabled notifications in VLC (Tools > Preferences > Interface > Show media change popup > Never). Yet I still get these notifications popup. Is there a way to say “Never, never” to VLC to stop it sending this annoying notifications?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: vlc 3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-1065.75-oem 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-1065-oem x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Dec 8 15:44:24 2019
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
 # This is the distribution channel descriptor for the OEM CDs
 # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
 canonical-oem-somerville-bionic-amd64-20180608-47+berlinetta-cfl-r+X77
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-08-28 (101 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20180608-09:38
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Bagas Sanjaya (bagasme)]

Try go to Settings -> Notifications. Click VLC entry and disable notifications there.