Notify me Not!
by taylorkh from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5MB2B)
Hopefully there is a software based solution to this. If not I may have to try the hardware forum. In a nutshell, I have a Logitech M570 wireless trackball. It works great on my CentOS 7 workstation with the Mate desktop (from epel). Unfortunately the system thinks it is rechargeable and when the battery gets low (10%) it starts throwing "low battery charge" notifications. This is quite a PITA as the battery will run for several weeks after getting to what the system thinks is 10% charged.
I am looking for a way to turn off this notification - or all notifications for that matter. I have found a lot of discussion on various Ubuntu forums in particular but no reasonably simple answers - at least until Ubuntu 21.04 which has a setting to turn off notifications. Mint Mate 20.1 has a "Do not disturb" setting which does the same thing. I am looking for something to work on my older system (short of writing a service that watches for notifications and immediatly kills them - found that recommendation on an Ubuntu page). Any suggestions???
I considered tweaking the configuration of the device to indicate that it was not rechargeable nor battery powered. However, I have not found where that is configured. I did not find anything in udev nor in the xorg config. Does anyone know where the device configuration is defined?
Yes, I could simply put in a new battery but I am hard headed :banghead: I really need to move away from CentOS 7 but it would be such a task to rebuild my complex workstation that I am putting that off until I get new hardware (or EOL in 2024). Of course the Mint "Do not disturb" switch might motivate me to do it sooner. I have been using Mint in a couple of virtual machines for some months now and am pleased with it.
TIA,
Ken
I am looking for a way to turn off this notification - or all notifications for that matter. I have found a lot of discussion on various Ubuntu forums in particular but no reasonably simple answers - at least until Ubuntu 21.04 which has a setting to turn off notifications. Mint Mate 20.1 has a "Do not disturb" setting which does the same thing. I am looking for something to work on my older system (short of writing a service that watches for notifications and immediatly kills them - found that recommendation on an Ubuntu page). Any suggestions???
I considered tweaking the configuration of the device to indicate that it was not rechargeable nor battery powered. However, I have not found where that is configured. I did not find anything in udev nor in the xorg config. Does anyone know where the device configuration is defined?
Yes, I could simply put in a new battery but I am hard headed :banghead: I really need to move away from CentOS 7 but it would be such a task to rebuild my complex workstation that I am putting that off until I get new hardware (or EOL in 2024). Of course the Mint "Do not disturb" switch might motivate me to do it sooner. I have been using Mint in a couple of virtual machines for some months now and am pleased with it.
TIA,
Ken