Changes to mate-notification-daemon

In MATE 1.6 mate-notification-daemon has a new feature that allows users to select which monitor they want to display notifications on. The current behavior only displays notifications on the monitor which is currently active (where the pointer is). The behavior will default to as it has always been, but the user can change the settings by modifying the “use-active-monitor” and “monitor-number” keys in gsettings via dconf-editor, or they can run mate-notification-properties and edit their settings via a GUI.

Below is a screenshot of mate-notification-properties set for notifications to be displayed on an active monitor. Note that “Use Active Monitor” is selected, which disables the combobox for selecting a monitor.

Below is a screenshot of mate-notification-properties set for notifications to be displayed on a specific monitor. Note that “Use Active Monitor” is not selected, which enables the combobox for selecting the monitor to be enabled. The monitor number is set to 2. This will display on my third monitor, since counting starts at 0 instead of 1.

26 thoughts on “Changes to mate-notification-daemon”

It’s very pleasant to see that Mate project is on active development!

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m0ns00n on January 21, 2013 at 4:51 am said:

Yes you’re right on. It’s very nice to see. Let’s us stay productive and focus on what we’re working on rather than to dance rhumba with the desktop environment

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I love you mate

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Nice, any way to make it easier to know which monitor is which?
* Could you name them? VGA1 and LVDS1 are slightly more meaning full. The display settings calls my monitors ‘Laptop’ and ‘Dell 17″‘. Might not help if you have multiple identical monitors
* or pop up a label on each screen while the dialog is open, and ‘use acti e monitor’ is not ticked. again names in the labels are better than numbers.

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My linuxmint is with MATE 1.5.5 desktop environment and I’m loving it!

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Sean on January 22, 2013 at 2:38 pm said:

How did you install mate 1.5.5 in Linux mint ?

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- Ray on January 30, 2013 at 2:08 pm said:
  
  You have to add the dev repo. For debian its dev.mate-repo.org I use it on my custom debian build on my netbook, and even tho MATE calls it “unstable” its been working flawlessly for a couple weeks
  
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  - Ray on January 30, 2013 at 2:11 pm said:
    
    Sorry, its dev.mate-desktop.org
    
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    - Oscar Nunez on February 7, 2013 at 1:47 am said:
      
      We’ll I’m running MATE 1.5.5 on my Debian Machine, It’s not that stable to be honest. the apperiance window for themes come out bigger than normal and my widgets act up now.
    - Stefano Karapetsas on February 7, 2013 at 4:56 am said:
      
      We increased the appereance window size. Is it an issue for you?

Shouldn’t the first monitor be numbered 1 instead of 0?

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best desktop these days

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Nice improvement. Could the “Active Monitor” be part of the drop list, followed by each monitor’s number & description. One less box to select…

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perberos on February 1, 2013 at 3:22 am said:

Good idea

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The most useful option for the notification daemon would be “stop spamming my desktop with useless crap that I don’t care about but can’t turn off because some applications are written by idiots”. It would be nice to be able to set that “properly” rather than having to disable the notification daemon entirely (since it’s basically impossible to purge it since it has a million dependents thanks to Gnome Stupidity (e.g. power management)).

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I totally enjoy using Mate. Being able to use shortcut keys using the ‘Windows key’ is really sweet, just as in Gnome 2.3. Mate in my opinion is wonderful and I am glad the Mate team is being recognized, as in the Colo in Germany. Between Mate and Cinnamon, this could be the future. The Desktop, as in the normal usage of a PC, is far from dead and Mate brings back sanity to the Desktop.
Thanks again for all your work.
Great job Mate Team.

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Just out of curiousity, what game is that being played in the image above?

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perberos on February 1, 2013 at 3:23 am said:

It’s Regnum Online

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- Ray on February 4, 2013 at 10:21 pm said:
  
  Looks like fun, I will have to try it if I can find it, ty
  
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Is MATE 1.6 going to be released or compatible with the Debian 7 final?

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Stefano Karapetsas on February 5, 2013 at 2:25 pm said:

We uploaded the first MATE package to Debian New queue, but if it will be accepted, it will be for Debian 8. But we’ll provide 1.6 packages for Wheezy in our repository.

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Great, now please also include an option to turn it off completely. I don’t need some application interrupting me for anything short of my desk being on fire.

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