{"id":16,"date":"2011-06-30T20:34:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T18:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sigterm.ch\/?p=16"},"modified":"2011-06-30T20:34:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T18:34:32","slug":"gnome-3-change-the-message-notification-timeout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigterm.ch\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Gnome 3 – Change the message notification duration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.
\nI 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. \ud83d\ude42 When someone is starring at your\u00a0screen at this time it’s quite uncomfortable…
\nAfter 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.
\nThe gnome-shell GUI stuff is located in \/usr\/share\/gnome-shell\/js\/ui.<\/p>\n

# cd \/usr\/share\/gnome-shell\/js\/ui<\/pre>\n
There you have to edit the messageTray.js file.<\/p>\n
# vi messageTray.js<\/pre>\n
In the first 20 lines you find the variable ‘NOTIFICATION_TIMEOUT’. On my computer the default value was 4, later in the code we can find that this stands for a four seconds duration time. I changed it to 0.5 seconds. You can change it to whatever you like.<\/p>\n
const NOTIFICATION_TIMEOUT = 0.5;<\/pre>\n
*Hint: You have to edit the file as root!
\nAfter doing all that you have to restart the gnome-shell.<\/p>\n
$ gnome-shell --replace<\/pre>\n
This worked as expected the first time, the second time my desktop froze and I had to restart my computer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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