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

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 17:59 on Tuesday 30 November 2010, Volker 
Armin Hemmann did opine thusly:

> 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.


Well that was easy enough, it works well.

Thanks.


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