Playing some Counter-Strike 2 and then a GNOME donation notification pops up π
I'm not sure why people enable any notifications on their desktop in the first place.
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To be notified of things that they want to know about.
"You are technically correct."
"The BEST kind of correct."
And even notifications they don't want to know about for free!
GNOME lets you block notifications on a per application basis.
Whenever I start a game on my KDE desktop, the notifications get muted automatically. I have no idea why, because I really don't remember setting it up. Maybe it's a standard feature that was added at some point. It's honestly pretty great though.
KDE turns on do not disturb mode when a program is in full screen mode by default.
You can test this by binding DnD to a button (preferable Meta key + unused letter like F), opening a program in full screen mode and toggling DnD.
This feature can be disabled in settings.
Is meta the official term for that key? I always called it the super key. Just curious
Only KDE calls it "meta". Everywhere else it's either "super" or "mod4". The left Alt is sometimes called "meta" or "mod1".
It's not just kde, for example the backronym for Emacs is "esc meta alt ctrl shift"
the discussion you entered was not about whether "meta" exists as a key, but rather, which key is "meta".
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From what I can see online the key is actually called the super key, but for some reason KDE Plasma calls it Meta on my device
Might be because Iβm on a MacBook
I think it's a default. It also tells me how many notifications I missed after closing the game.
I see you stopped playing because your game crashed.
You got 76 notifications in the 20 hours you were playing. Take a shower, drink some water, and get some sleep you slacker.I usually like being notified of messages in certain chats. But even with that I'd like to be able to choose which chats are allowed to disturb me no matter what and which ones should make noise but not that damn much!
I believe the notifications for donation on my KDE laptop (running Bazzite) are yearly so... hopefully you won't be seeing it often
Recent versions of KDE also automatically enable Do Not Disturb mode whenever you launch a full-screen window so you won't get interrupted by a notification anyway! Honestly surprised GNOME doesn't do that as well.
They do.
It's easy to test with notify-send test, and yeah GNOME does block notifications while fullscreen applications are open. I wonder how that notification went through, maybe gamescope isn't properly registering the fullscreen application or it's x11 wine being the problem.
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Don't be a loser with no defuser!
What distro? I've been using GNOME on Ubuntu and Debian for the past five years and I don't recall ever seeing a donation notification.
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Just use Linux Mint.