The default GNOME notification area is slap-bang centre top of the screen, a position that makes it hard to miss notifications and alerts.
But sometimes it’s not ideal. If you’re running an app that sends too many notifications too frequently (like an e-mail client), it can be distracting – especially with a maximised window.
If you want to change the position of notifications in GNOME Shell area, you can install an extension.
GNOME Notification Placement
In the past, GNOME notifications would appear in the lower right-hand corner of the desktop. It was a less intrusive position it did mean notifications were easily overlooked.
In 2015 GNOME developers moved the GNOME notification area to the top of the screen, part of wider tweaking and tuning of the desktop as a whole.
Most of us find a top-most position ideal, and since notifications in GNOME Shell can be dismissed (unlike on the Unity desktop where you have to wait for them to fade out of view), they’re easy to punt out of the way.
But at the center top isn’t ideal for everyone.
So how can you move the notification location in GNOME Shell? Well, there are no built-in notification positioning settings provided out of the box, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist: there’s simply no GUI for them.
Panel OSD GNOME Shell Extension
GNOME is regularly criticised for not offering enough settings — it does, but most are not surfaced to users in the GUI. The settings are there, and developers can take advantage of their flexibility by building GNOME extensions.
So if you want to move the position of GNOME Notifications you can, you just need to use a third-party extension: Panel OSD. This allows you to “configure where on the (main) screen notifications will appear”.
In short, that means you can use the extension to reposition notifications anywhere on your screen.
Note: this extension only lets you change where notifications appear. It doesn’t let you disable notifications entirely. For that, you need to find a different extension.
Step one is to install the Panel OSD extension from the GNOME Extensions website:
Once that’s done, open Panel OSD’s settings in the GNOME Extensions Preferences app.
Simply adjust the the ‘Horizontal Position’ and ‘Vertical Position’ sliders to pick where notifications appear. Click the ‘show test notification’ button to preview the placement.
If, for example, you want notifications to show in the same place as they do on the Unity desktop, you would set the horizontal slider to around 95%, and the vertical slider to around 95% too.
Let me know how it goes!
via inflo.ws