Boring with the default notification bubbles and want a change? A patched version of Notify OSD, Canonical’s on-screen notification agent, is available and allows you to customize the pop-up bubbles via a simple graphical tool. With it, you can: Move notification bubble position. Notification display time out. Click to close the bubble. Change background color, opacity Configure bubble width, icon ...

When a notification bubble pops up in Ubuntu Unity desktop, you have to wait a few seconds until it disappears automatically. This tutorial is going to show you how to configure Unity’s notify-OSD, so that you can easily close the notification bubbles by simple mouse-clicking on them. 1. To get started, first install a graphical tool for configuring notify-OSD. Open ...

For Lubuntu 14.10 and Lubuntu 15.04 users who are using the default theme, you may encounter a notification issue, like above picture shows, the bubble has horizontal bars and it’s hard to read the text. Some one has report this bug and a workaround is to remove the panel-bg file from the theme folder. To do so, open terminal from ...