Questions tagged [notifications]
An active reminder of video or audio to alert of a condition
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Why does terminal say: "You have mail"?
Any idea why my Mac terminal says:
You have mail in /var/mail/lofye
How can I make it stop saying that every time I open terminal?
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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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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 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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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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How to ring the system bell from command line?
I'm using some Bash scripts under Linux that require some time to complete; I'd like to add at the end of them a command to ring the system bell when those tasks are done, so I can be notified.
What'...
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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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How to view previous Firefox notifications?
I got a message notification from Firefox, but it wasn't on the screen for long. I'd like to read what it said again. How do I view previous notifications?
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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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Disable "Window is Ready" Notification in Gnome Shell?
It's just annoying. I know what happens on my system and if I want to check a software, I can do it on my own. Though I don't know how to disable that. Turning off every notification panel doesn't ...
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Pop-Up Notification when time reaches 4:00PM?
I was wondering if there was a way to display a notification or something from the command line at a certain time. Like when the clock strikes 4:00pm. It would be nice if it would display it using ...
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How do I disable the beep/bell sound in iTerm2 in macbook?
The shell in macbook makes annoying beep/bell/boop sounds.
For the OEM terminal, this answer works on disabling this annoying sounds:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19166539/i-want-to-disable-...
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Is there a way to dismiss notifications using a keyboard shortcut in Windows 10?
I'm talking about the notifications that appear in the bottom right corner and disappear by themselves in a few seconds. However, they sometimes can take up a lot of space and get in the way, which is ...
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How to disable thunderbird notification
I run Ubuntu Hardy and Thunderbird version 2.0.0.23 (not tagging for linux/ubuntu since I think is a Thunderbird thing, but you can re-tag if appropriate).
I am really tired of the email ...
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How can I stop the "Get Office 365" notifications in Windows 10?
I recently upgraded to Windows 10, and every couple days I have been getting this annoying notification that is basically an ad for Office 365.
It seems to come from an app called "Get Office 365".
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