Gnome 3 – Change the message notification duration

Recently at work I updated my box to Ubuntu 11.04. I really couldn’t handle Unity – so I installed Gnome 3… It took some time but now I like it.
I have pidgin installed and every chat message I get shows me a Gnome message notification for a couple of seconds. A nice, useful helper I would say. But I’m at work and some friends of mine have the terrible habit to write a new message for every single word they use. 🙂 When someone is starring at your screen at this time it’s quite uncomfortable…
After googling a bit I couldn’t find any solution to change the duration time of the notification. So I’ve found a solution on my own. I tested this on Ubuntu 11.04 and on my Arch Linux computer at home. Continue reading