Hello,
Is there any way to make Thunderbird new mail notifications not disappear after a few seconds through some kind of setting or an extension? I'm using 52.5.0 version under KDE Plasma 5.
Persistent new mail notification. [Linux.]
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Persistent new mail notification. [Linux.]
Last edited by LIMPET235 on January 21st, 2018, 5:10 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Persistent new mail notification. [Linux.]
Menu path Edit → Preferences->General->Customize button->select a length of time.
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Re: Persistent new mail notification. [Linux.]
Hm, maybe it's something with Plasma, but I've set it to 3600 s and it still disappears after few seconds.
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Re: Persistent new mail notification. [Linux.]
Yes, that could be an OS issue.
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Re: Persistent new mail notification. [Linux.]
Ok, I got it working. KDE developers decided to hard code 5 s timeout for notifications and to not keep them in notification area in Plasma 5. It can be worked around with GNotifier extension and custom command notifier:
where zero timeout ensures that it is treated as a persistent notification and kept in the notification area. The first notification goes straight to notification area and a popup is not shown. The second shows a popup with 10000 ms (10 s) timeout, but it is not retained in the notification area after disappearing.
Hope that helps somebody else dealing with the problem.
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notify-send -t 0 -i "%image" "%title" "%text"; notify-send -t 10000 -i "%image" "%title" "%text"
Hope that helps somebody else dealing with the problem.
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Re: Persistent new mail notification. [Linux.]
Thanks for posting the solution.