Ubuntu
notification-daemon package

no notifications should pop-up if fullscreen app is running

Bug #28752 reported by j^ on 2006-01-17

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #24070: notification daemon should postpone showing the bubbles if applications are in fullscreenmode (instead of not showing them at all). Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	notification-daemon (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

currently if you run a fullscreen app like playing a
video with totem or a presentation, update-notifier
will popup if new packages are available.

this is anoying, distrubing and awkward.

eather there must be a way to switch off this notification
bubble.
a blinking icon like gaim used it is fine.
or update-notifier should be smart enough to not pop
over fullscreen apps.

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Loic Pefferkorn (loic) wrote on 2006-01-17:

I can confirm this bug.
This is particularly annoying when playing fullscreen games :/

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2006-04-07:

Thanks for your bugreport.

There is a patch in notification-daemon that should keep it from opening a notification when a application is runing in fullscreen mode. Unfortunately this seems to be buggy :/

As a workaround, right-click on the notifcation icon and unselect "Show notifications" there.

Cheers,
Michael

Sebastian Dröge (slomo) on 2006-05-15

Changed in notification-daemon:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Jonh Wendell (wendell) wrote on 2007-03-16:

This is still happening with me.

I made a comment on bug tracker: http://trac.galago-project.org/ticket/4

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Mephisto (ferrylandzaat) wrote on 2007-08-01:

Can you please make this optional? I prefer to see the notifications while in fullscreen, so i get notified when certain events happen while playing games, and i can use things like pidgin's libnotify plugin while playing. It's kinda annoying to suddenly see your laptop turn off because the battery is flat while watching a video in fullscreen. I rather get notified about low battery in time...
Maybe change it so only events with level 'urgent' show up in fullscreen? I think 'battery critical' falls in this category...