• From: UK
  • Registered: 2009-02-23
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Topic: Auto-hide the 'connected to network' popup

One thing that has annoyed me about CrunchBang (and Ubuntu in general), is the 'connected to wireless network' popup you get every startup.

The next version of Ubuntu uses a new notification method, which looks slicker, and more importantly, goes away after a few seconds.

For those who can't wait for the new version, here's how you apply it to the current CrunchBang distro. This worked fine on my EEE laptop.

Almost all of the instructions can be found here.

Follow this through until step 3.3, where you edit the Sessions properties. Instead of this, right-click the desktop, go to Preferences->Openbox Config->Edit autorun.sh, and then add this line at the top:

/home/myusername/notify-osd.sh &

Substitute myusername with your real username folder!

This should auto-start the new notification script, and on next boot you will see the new notification style. And it goes away by itself smile

Hope this helps someone!

  • Quu
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  • From: Jyväskylä, Finland
  • Registered: 2009-02-24
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Re: Auto-hide the 'connected to network' popup

It works,
But. It is in right up corner and i have my bar on down smile
It really "auto-hides", it is so quick you cant even have time to read it.

If there is something to conf, tell me please :<

EDIT: oh yah, balloon is same color as my wallpaper, can that be changed? tongue

Last edited by Quu (2009-03-09 07:02:54)

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  • Registered: 2009-02-23
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Re: Auto-hide the 'connected to network' popup

Glad it works for you!

Yep, I found the same - my bar is at the bottom too. I searched high and low and from the little I learnt, it seems there might be a Jaunty-specific configuration 'thing' to change the location/colour of the popups. I don't think this can be used in the current Ubuntu - we'll just have to wait for the new version smile

It also looks like the timing of the popup is controlled by the calling application (so probably Network Manager in your case), so again, these programs will have to be updated to add the necessary options.

To be honest, I almost exclusively connect to the one (home) network, so I know what the popup will say and don't need to read it. I do agree it isn't on-screen for long enough - hopefully the full release of Jaunty will improve this or at least allow it to be configured. Sorry I can't be of more help!

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Re: Auto-hide the 'connected to network' popup

I changed wallpaper to something more colorfull tongue
It would be good to somehow get popup be there for longer, i got irssi showing hilight as popups wink

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  • From: France, Vesoul
  • Registered: 2009-02-20
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Re: Auto-hide the 'connected to network' popup

top !

I have no more the big one
&
I have not the new one (don't need it !)

big_smile
thanks a lot !

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  • From: U.S.A.
  • Registered: 2009-01-28
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Re: Auto-hide the 'connected to network' popup

I just removed the notification daemon altogether. I mean, why do you really need that? I can see that I am connected to a network already =-}

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  • Registered: 2009-04-07
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Re: Auto-hide the 'connected to network' popup

It works!:)
Thanks.
But during installation it gave me warning:
...package libwnck-1.0 not found...
I have install it manually.

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Re: Auto-hide the 'connected to network' popup

The other way to achieve this effect is sudo apt-get install wicd wink

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  • From: Srbija
  • Registered: 2010-04-06
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Re: Auto-hide the 'connected to network' popup

nabilalk wrote:

I just removed the notification daemon altogether. I mean, why do you really need that? I can see that I am connected to a network already =-}

Did that a long time ago smile One of them "things to do right after install" smile

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Re: Auto-hide the 'connected to network' popup

how do you remove (or disable?) the notification daemon?

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