Rhythmbox option to disable notification

[Fred]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

Add an option to disable the song change notification popups in Rhythmbox.

Every time it changes song, it annoy me with that distracting useless notification that steals my attention.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that can be disabled by unsetting the show_notifications key on gconf. not a bug.

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

It needs to have a configure option in the GUI.

That is like saying "Oh, thats not a bug, its a feature", "That can be disabled by uncommenting a line and recompile it from source".

[Greg Smith (gsmith-gregsmith)]

There is a configuration option in a GUI...just not the one you looked at. This is really a documentation problem. If someone turned the instructions I'm including here into a FAQ entry or something like that, I don't think there's any application change needed here. It's just really not obvious what to do.

The basic fix is to run gconf-editor and navigate to /apps/rhythmbox/ui where you'll find a checkbox for show_notifications exposed. Toggle that off and notifications go away.

Unfortunately, gconf-editor isn't available via the default Ubuntu menu structure either. You can fix that by System/Preferences/Main Menu, going into the System Tools section, and enabling "Configuration Editor". Now gconf-editor will be available with that name under Applications/System Tools.

So the all-GUI solution here is to edit the menus, add Configuration Editor, run Configuration Editor, navigate into the Rhythmbox UI section, and turn off show_notifications.

Alternately, the quick command-line workaround is to edit .gconf/apps/rhythmbox/ui/%gconf.xml and edit the line that looks like this:

<entry name="show_notifications" mtime="1242152894" type="bool" value="true"/>

so that the value is "false". That seems to work fine, but you don't have to do that manually and using the official editor tool would presumably be preferred.

[Bernhard (b.a.koenig)]

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't there a way to disable these notifications by clicking on the status icon? But this seems to have gone lost during the recent changes in lucid.

The option to switch them off is still available in gconf-editor by going to /apps/rhythmbox/plugins/status-icon/notification-mode

[jorge (xxopxe)]

Oh, this one is well hidden: plugin properties - Status Icon - Configure - Notifications: Never Shown. Is so well hidden, that people point you to gconf :\
I wasted time looking for this in Karmic, and forgot about it just in time to waste it again in Lucid, heh.