Re: [gentoo-user] Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Tuesday 30 November 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 09:35 on Tuesday 30 November 2010, Volker
>
> Armin Hemmann did opine thusly:
> > On Monday 29 November 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > Such a simple thing and I cannot find how to do it.
> > >
> > > KDE-4.5, I have a panel at the bottom with a systray over on the right
> > > edge. I run konsole on the right half of the screen, and the plasmoid
> > > notification popup is right above where the current command is being
> > > typed.
> > >
> > > So I want to move the popup somewhere else like maybe top right of
> > > screen (without having to fiddle with plasmoids on the desktop and
> > > other nonsense which I don't grok)
> > >
> > > I cannot find how to do this :-(   Maybe it's a theme thing, I use
> > > Elegance, but I recall not being able to do this either with the
> > > default theme long ago.
> >
> > notification is part of sys-tray. So to move the notifications you have
> > to move the systray plasmoid. Just unlock plasmoids, left click on the
> > cashew on the toolbar and you can move around all the plasmoids.
>
> Hmmm. What if my usual usage is ALL screen space occupied by apps ALL THE
> TIME? How do I see some popup on the desktop if the entire desktop is
> covered by window.
>
> And I WANT the systray in the panel at bottom right. I also want to tell
> the plasmoid to put it's popup somewhere else, not in the default place.
>
> Am I asking for the impossible?

no,

there is a notification plasmoid. You can put it whereever you want on your 
desktop and you can remove the one running in systray. You can also configure 
if there is a popup or not.