How to stop popup notifications in pidgin

Written on September 4th, 2009 at 01:07 am by shredder12

The notification feature provided by pidgin 2.5.5 in ubuntu 9.04 is activated by default. Earlier it seemed to be a pretty attaractive thing but I have many people added in my friends list and getting a notificatin everytime someone logs in was pretty annoying.

Specially when I am either watching movie or doing some work these notifications irritated a lot. But there is a way to get rid of this trouble or even tune it a bit for your needs. 

This feature is actually provided by a plugin lib-notify . Open your pidgin manager and go to Tools => Plugins or just press Ctrl-U. Browse down the list of plugins and there you will see a plugin by the name “libnotify popups”.  

                          

then you can either configure it to your choice of options or you can jst uncheck it for no notifications. 

1 Comment

Anon Linuxer (not verified)
December 17th, 2010 12:28 am
thx. just switched from empathy to pidgin ... couldn't figure this easy thing out!! merry xmas

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