On 10.11.07, In One of my favorite features of the Ubuntu (Linux) Operating system is the notify-send (also known as NotifyOSD). However in Ubuntu 9.04 and greater the notification window has moved. Here’s how to fix it so it works like earlier versions.
Ubuntu’s NotifyOSD system allows you to easily create notification bubbles for a variety of different tasks. For example you can get your Facebook status updates, calendar reminders, and system notifications. However for reasons I do not understand, Lucid Lynx puts the notify window up in the top right hand side of your screen and gives you no easy way to customize it.
Fortunatly there is easy solution”
1) To add the PPA, paste this in a terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:leolik/leolik
2) Then to install the new, patched Notify OSD, paste this in a terminal:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
This patch then allows you to create a text file called “.notify-osd” that contains. This patch then allows you to create a text file called “.notify-osd”. There are several customizable options now available to you including the color, position, transparency, etc.
You can download this file here (.notify-osd) and save it to your home directory, to simulate the old version of Ubuntu’s notify program.
There is one setting left, however, the bubble will stil show up in the topright hand corner of the screen, and I prefer to see mine in the bottom right. To do this we need to set the “gravity” setting withon the gnome-config settings
3) From the terminal run
gconftool-2 -s /apps/notify-osd/gravity --type=int 3 (3 is the bottom right corner)
4) Finally you need to execute
pkill notify-osd
Now try using notify-send and viola. Feel free to play around with .notify-osd file for further customization and tweaking.
