FettesPS » msn http://www.fettesps.com Fettes Programming Solutions Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:20:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How To Disable Pidgin’s On Screen Display Notifications http://www.fettesps.com/how-to-disable-pidgins-on-screen-display-notifications/ http://www.fettesps.com/how-to-disable-pidgins-on-screen-display-notifications/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:02:06 +0000 FettesPS http://www.fettesps.com/?p=719 As beautiful as Pidgin’s OSD notifications are, I find they become a nuisance after a short while. They don’t seem to go away when you mark yourself as busy or have another applications, such as a movie, running at full screen. On top of that I generally don’t chat with the majority of the contacts on my MSN list very often so I really don’t need to be notified every time they log in.

Strangely, the option to disable the OSD notifications isn’t in the preferences screen for Pidgin. I was a little stumped by this as I expected it to be there. So I did a bit of digging and discovered it was actually a plugin which is enabled by default. To disable it, simply follow these steps:

  • Select Tools from the main menu
  • Click Plugins
  • Uncheck Libnotify Popups
  • Click the Close button

Now you’ll no longer be nagged at every time one of your contacts logs into the network.

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