Close button on notify-osd?

Is it possible to get a close button on the OSD?

It stays for a long time, and sometimes I have colleagues over on my PC, and I dont want them seeing who is online, or what song I am listening to. No, I can't disable it.

Solution 1:

The choice to have zero chrome on the ephemeral notifications is very deliberate and not going to change. The rationale is that these notifications should be as lightweight as possible.

However, there are some things that could be done to help you further.

There is a spec to make the timing of the notification variable - longer messages would stay for a longer time, or updated messages would be extended. A patch implementing that would be welcome, it would allow us to shorten the time for very short messages :-)

Also, we would like to add a "do not disturb" mode, where only system (urgent) notifications, like battery very low and hardware problems, would show up. So you could use do-not-disturb to avoid people seeing your notifications when they are looking over your shoulder, or you are plugged in to the projector (though we'd rather put the notifications on your laptop screen and not on the projector, where they are different displays). Again, a patch for that would be welcome.

Solution 2:

Your best bet would be file a bug and ask for the feature. When filing a wishlist bug like this, be sure to give some thought out user cases why this feature could prove to be useful for a larger section of the Ubuntu user community.