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Strykar

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Registered: 2018-02-17

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How to stop all gnome notifications when a steam game is running?

How can I pause/disable notifications when a Steam game starts and re-enable them when the game exits?
These popups can make me tab out of the game if my mouse happens to be around the top centre of the screen at the time and it's bloody annoying.

I play just two games, Dota and TF2 and I thought if I could launch them via a script that turns off notifications, but I'm unsure how to script to re-enable notifications once I exit the game, Steam is running all the time.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: How to stop all gnome notifications when a steam game is running?

A googler for "disabling GNOME notifications" led me to https://superuser.com/questions/901916/ … 8-4-from-t

so

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.notifications show-banners false
$gamecommand
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.notifications show-banners true