Questions tagged [notifications]
An active reminder of video or audio to alert of a condition
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How can I trigger a notification when a job/process ends?
The place I work at has commands that take a long time to execute.
Is there a command/utility that I can use to notify me when the command execution is over? It could be a popup window or maybe a ...
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View past notifications in Windows 10 and 11?
New with Windows 10 seems to be the Notification Area. Now, I've seen a few notifications (in the Action Center). The problem is that I haven't understood any of them (actively using computers for 30 ...
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How to disable popup messages in Windows 8?
Windows 8 keeps popping up irritating messages at all odd times at the top of the screen:
These seem to be like some sort of new balloon tips. How do I get rid of these permanently?
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Outlook 2013, New Mail Desktop Alert Goes Away After 5 Seconds
When I receive a new email, the desktop notification pops up and then fade away after 5 seconds. I found how to fix it through changing registry for outlook 2010 and older versions but it does not ...
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Is there any way to view Chrome browser notifications history?
I get Chrome notifications from several websites and they work when I don't even have any tabs open for those sites.
But sometimes I get these Chrome notifications when I am not at my desk or looking ...
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Disabling the "Enable notifications?" popup in Firefox
If I'm on a page that has web notifications (like Slack or others), Firefox asks me if I want to enable them. However, my choices are "Yes" or "Ignore for now". The problem is, if I select "Ignore", ...
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Is it possible to disable the "scan and fix" message when inserting an SD Card?
Every time I insert the SD card from my camera into the card reader, I get this dialog:
Of course there is no need to scan it. Is there a way to disable it?
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Disable "press 'esc' to exit full screen" in flash videos
This is not a duplicate of this question
I watch videos on YouTube, Netflix, etc. Whenever I enter full-screen mode, I get the annoying "You've entered full screen mode. Press 'esc' to exit full ...
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RSS reader with windows notifications [closed]
I am looking for an RSS reader that I can run minimized in my notifications task bar and that will post a notification whenever there is an update to one of the feeds.
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Is there a way to show notification from bash script in Ubuntu?
Most of the application can show nicely formatted notification on events that appear on top right corner of the screen. I'm about to write a bash script that will do fairy long processing in the ...
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"You need to fix your Microsoft account" notification
The "You need to fix your Microsoft account" notification pops up every 10 minutes with the new Anniversary Update. This notification appears because I am not signed into my Microsoft account. I do ...
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How do I set Thunderbird to notify me of new emails in only certain folders?
I use Gmail with Thunderbird, which is working great, except for the part where I get a new email. It shows me the new email twice when notifying because it appears in both the inbox and All Mail ...
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How do I force Windows 10 notification duration to be less than 5 seconds?
If you go into settings > Ease of Access in Windows 10, you can adjust the duration of time for which notifications appear in the bottom left hand corner of your screen. The minimum duration there ...
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How to write to KDE's OSD or notification from console?
How can I write, from a bash script, to KDE's OSD or notification area? I am using KDE 4.5, and basically what I want is my script to report some stuff when it is run. Since I run the script by a ...
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How can I get Skype to not stay minimized in the task bar?
Since two or three updates Skype insists taking up a taskbar slot for its main window (I set it to use the “Compact View”, but it applies to the default view as well). Since I don't need the main ...
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