Disable Pidgin Notifications in Ubuntu 9.04

I love the new libnotify notifications in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope, but don’t really want my IM messages popping up on the top right of the screen — especially at work.

So how do you get Pidgin to just quietly blink in your system tray like it used to?

Pidgin uses libnotify as a plugin to make those notification happens, and you can turn it off like any other. Go to Tools->Plugins and find “Libnotify Popups” and uncheck it.

Then to get your old notifications back check the “Message Notification” plugin. Then go to Tools->Preferences and set “Show system tray icon” to Always on the Interface tab. Then you can right-click on your Pidgin icon in the system tray and check “Blink on New Message” so you at least know when someone is trying to chat with (distract) you.

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1. Thank you!

   Comment by Alex — April 22, 2010 @ 10:40 am

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