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Disabling the "Enable notifications?" popup in Firefox

Go into about:config and set dom.webnotifications.enabled to false. This seems to work for me in FF 47.
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How to ring the system bell from command line?

tput bel is a relatively portable solution.
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View past notifications in Windows 10?

tldr; No there's not. The action center is the same as found on the Microsoft Phones running Windows 10 Mobile. These actions (notifications) are meant to be displayed to the user until they take ...
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Disabling Realtek audio notification on Windows 10

Go to Settings > System > Notifications and actions and under Get notifications from these senders, scroll down and turn off Realtek HD Audio Manager
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How do I disable the beep/bell sound in iTerm2 in macbook?

To disable the bell sound in iTerm2, do this: iTerm2 -> Preferences -> Profiles Under Terminal tab, you will see Notifications header. Toggle the Silence bell option. EDIT: Please note that ...
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Is there any way to view Chrome browser notifications history?

If you have a Mac, there is a way! 😄 Here's how the notifications list would look like: All you have to do is: 1. In chrome, go to: chrome://flags/ 2. Look for: Enable native notifications. Mac ...
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How can I stop the "Get Office 365" notifications in Windows 10?

Where it says "search the web and windows" type "notifications" At the top of the of the popup menu you should see something that says "Notications and action settings" Click on that and from you ...
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Disabling UAC on a work computer, at least the audio notifications

Your IT dept may take a dim view of changing when UAC is triggered. To turn the sound off try StartMenu -> Search -> Change system sounds. Then in Program Events change the sound for Windows ...
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Is there any way to view Chrome browser notifications history?

On MacOSX you will have Chrome directory located in Library/Application Support. Open terminal application and run next commands: cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Platform\ ...
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How to ring the system bell from command line?

Try this command: echo -e "\07" or echo -e "\a" They are the same. "07" is an octal representation of BEL (bell) character in ASCII, and "a" stands for "...
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Is there any way to view Chrome browser notifications history?

If you are using MS-Windows, then go to %LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Platform Notifications, there is a log file of past notifications.
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Disabling the "Enable notifications?" popup in Firefox

Go into about:config and set dom.webnotifications.enabled to false You can also disable this on a per-site basis by right-clicking somewhere in a blank spot of the site (or pressing Ctrl-I on Windows ...
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Disabling the "Enable notifications?" popup in Firefox

As of Firefox 59, this is in Options Open the Options window On the left side of the screen, click "Privacy & Security" Under the "Permissions" section, find "...
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"You need to fix your Microsoft account" notification

First, you'll need a local account. If you already have one, you can go straight to the "Email & app accounts" screen (see further down). If you don't have a local account, you'll need to create ...
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Is there a way to show notification from bash script in Ubuntu?

Tested on Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 20.04. Screenshots from Ubuntu 20.04. [WORKS WELL] Popup notification that auto-closes after 4~10 seconds (somehow tied to your OS settings?): notify-send "...
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How to disable nagging "try edge" notifications?

Is there any way I can silence these annoying notifications? You just disable them: Launch the Settings App Search for Notifications & Actions Disable the notifications by setting Get tips, ...
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Disable "Window is Ready" Notification in Gnome Shell?

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences auto-raise 'true' For anyone viewing this question recently, and willing to accept the newly opened window to rise on top of other open windows.
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Is there a way to dismiss notifications using a keyboard shortcut in Windows 10?

Hiding all currently displayed notifications for viewing them later works by opening and closing the Action Center. (Press [Win]+[A] two times) When you need a total pause from notifications, you can ...
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Disabling the "Enable notifications?" popup in Firefox

In about:config I set dom.webnotifications.enabled to false but it didn't work for me in FF 56. I had to set dom.push.enabled to false as well.
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Disabling Realtek audio notification on Windows 10

I found a solution here that worked for me. Basically: Open the Realtek HD Audio Manager through the Control Panel. Click on the lowercase "i" on the bottom right of the Audio Manager window that ...
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Microsoft Teams – Notification when someone becomes available

From the Chat list, click the ... to the right of a person/contact. From the context menu, select Notify when available. You will receive a toast alert in Teams when the person's status changes to ...
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Get Google Chrome to run in the background again on Windows 10

Looks like all it takes to get it to show up is have a background app installed. I used to install Dropbox for Gmail to get this functionality, but after seeing how many permissions I have to grant ...
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How can I send a notification to a Windows 10 computer from the command line

Another way is the built in MSG.exe command that has been there since Vista. From a command prompt there the following: msg /server:poseidon daniel "Please contact help desk immediately!" Server is ...
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How can I send a notification to a Windows 10 computer from the command line

If you want to create a native windows notification (a popup in bottom-right corner and persistant in notification center), you could take the following Powershell snippet as a template. Taken from ...
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How to block notifications in Brave web browser?

These options can be found under the permissions section of the Site Settings menu. Both chrome://settings/content/notifications and brave://settings/content/notifications will bring you to the ...
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View past notifications in Windows 10?

You can use a paid Notification Logger app from the Microsoft Store to view past notifications history. I'm the author of this app.
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How do I revoke chrome notification permissions?

It is very easy to remove the "Notifications" permission from a website in Chrome, though the steps may vary depending on what version of Chrome you are using. Here's how to do it on the newest ...
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Force Microsoft Teams to use OS-native Notifications

There seems to be a development option enableNativeNotification that will enable system notifications in Microsoft teams. I unfortunately cannot try this myself, as the development preview needed to ...
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Disable "Window is Ready" Notification in Gnome Shell?

The answer I arrived at is to install this Gnome Extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1007/window-is-ready-notification-remover/ Discovered while participating in this issue: https://...
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Disable Windows 10 Update Notification OSD

windows_update_notification_only_toggle.bat Notification-only subset to block just the annoying notifications and reboot tasks, leaving update function enabled and working. To undo changes and ...
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