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Posted: **Wed Mar 31, 2021 10:27 pm**

In the notifications area, I now get a notification of something trending on Redit.

I've had this a couple times.

I am not a redit member and I don't like forced ads of any kind.

How do I disable this somewhat windows like behavior ?

Posted: **Wed Mar 31, 2021 10:50 pm**

is it a notification from your browser?

if so....depending on your browser, go to site settings ... notifications (or similar) and block ...or don't allow

Posted: **Wed Mar 31, 2021 10:55 pm**

Sites try to push notification if you responded "yes" by mistake first time when you are asked "do you want notifications from this site" you'll get this kind of notifications, you need to disable those:

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pu ... ns-firefox
Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answe ... ktop&hl=en

Posted: **Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:11 pm**

but one should always check what is trending on reddit :

at least once each day .... :)

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:33 am**

It is not on my Browser, it is in the little window that shows when the battery is charging.

MX notifications

Plus I could not have accepted notifications for redit in the browser as I have never visited the site.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 5:59 am**

which DE are you using?

sounds like some sort of widget that you need to disable

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 6:08 am**

Please run Quick System Info and post your system information whenever asking for help as per the forum rules. Just run it then right-click paste in a reply, don't copy/paste. Instructions are here if you need them. Thanks.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 6:46 am**

I believe if you turn website things on even unbeknownst then they will show up there.

Look in start menu, notifications, applications. See if there is anything you don't want to see that is ticked on.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 7:12 am**

uBlock Origin and NoScript (installed together) work wonders for these kinds of pop ups. You can even use Privoxy to filter much of the junk.
Some sites do a poor job of early-00's late-90's internet nostalgia.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 7:27 am**

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System:
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  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.6.0-2-amd64 
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  Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 
  dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-19.3_ahs_x64 patito feo May 31  2020 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
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  UEFI: American Megatrends v: X509DAP.300 date: 01/08/2020 
Battery:
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Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 7:32 am**

The notifications box used to have a different look, It changed to a square box after one of my updates.

I'll have to take a screen cap when I see it again.

Depending on if the update changes things.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 7:51 am**

https://imgur.com/GIlX1yD.png

The little blue box where it says Power manager.

Now it sometimes says trending on redit. And instead of disappearing automatically, I have to click on it to remove the notification.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 7:57 am**

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 2: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo/ buster test

You've permanently enabled the MX test repo and may have b0rked your installation. Read "How To Break Your System" linked in my signature. If you want to install something from the test repo use MX Package Installer.

Have you downloaded and installed any apps from the Internet?

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:14 am**

JayM wrote: Thu Apr 01, 2021 7:57 am Have you downloaded and installed any apps from the Internet?

Just from the repositories, a few games (most of which I have removed), a morse code thing, newsboat, mpv, and maybe some other stuff.

The notification box changed quite a while ago and I didn't think anything of it. The redit thing, just started in the last couple days.

so maybe one of these softwares had some sort of virus?

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:20 am**

I knew enough to not permanently enable the MX Test repostitory.
I have browsed it a couple times. But I never intentionally enabled it.

I guess I need a new install, that sucks, so much work.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:26 am**

But we never heard.... what IS trending on Reddit? Anything good?

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:28 am**

Newsboat may be what's causing the Reddit notifications as it's an RSS/Atom newsfeed reader, and Reddit may be one of its default feeds. Check its settings.( BTW Newsboat is available in MX Package Installer, Stable Repo, so no need to go out and download it from somewhere.)

I suggest you hold off on reinstalling MX for a bit, as I just remembered that the MX Test repo may have been set up so the aoutoamtic updates don'[t update from it. Wait for one of the developers to confirm this as you may be OK.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:41 am**

This is a very popular complaint about the Google Chrome web browser, that it pops up notifications about "trending on reddit" even when people have not turned on these notifications.

I will assume that the OP is using Google Chrome browser. This is apparently the step to turn off that behavior: "Try going to chrome://settings/content/notifications to see what sites you have allowed notifications for."

I hope this helps. If the problem is with Chrome, then it is not an MX problem. I would recommend moving away from Chrome, which is a privacy nightmare, and going with a privacy-centered browser like Brave or Vivaldi. Both Brave and Vivaldi work just like Chrome and will allow you to use your extensions from the Chrome web store.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:50 am**

I assumed the OP was using brave browser from looking at his repos...

Then again I have lots of browsers installed but have been sticking to Vivaldi of late

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:52 am**

Well, one thing I must say, he'd surely win the "open tabs count" challenge! Reminds me of 90s : hijacked browsers having too many 3rd party toolbars which looked too colorful and too less place to browse on the page.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:55 am**

I have chromium dissenter and brave installed but mostly I have been using chromium, lately as it has been better for blocking youtube adds with a plugin.

For some reason the same plugin doesn't work as well with brave or dissenter.

I don't remember what was trending on redit.

I have to look at the newsboat settings, If I can figure out where they are.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:07 am**

Dissenter calls itself "The Comment Section of the Internet". That one might be your problem, as commenting on random websites is a very reddit kind of thing.

Any of these Chrome-based browsers (chromium, Dissenter, Brave) has the ability to give you little pop-up notifications like that. And Newsboat probably does as well. Check your notification settings on all those pieces of software and you'll probably find your problem. For Brave, click on the menu and then Brave Rewards and make sure you have the "Ads" toggle switched off.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:14 am**

junoluna wrote: Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:50 am I assumed the OP was using brave browser from looking at his repos...

Then again I have lots of browsers installed but have been sticking to Vivaldi of late

Brave has an option to show you ads and pay you in their crypto coin, it's a personal choice. https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/arti ... Brave-Ads-

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:20 am**

All three are chrome based.
Dissenter was put out by the maker of gab.ai to get around google comment censorship.

I looked at the newsboat settings. I thought that there might be two, but I only see the one to edit things like colors and such, which I did edit. It is a text only thing run from a terminal. None of my settings have have anything to do with feeds, well other than the urls that I set in a urls folder.

I find it doubtful that a text based news reader would change such a setting. I could uninstall it though.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:21 am**

As far as browser pop up notifications, I've only seen them pop up in the browser and never when the browser was closed.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:28 am**

My newsboat config.
I've edited it to change colors and to use vim-like keybindings, and to open video with mpv and audio with audacious. An the default browser as Chromium.

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auto-reload yes

confirm-exit yes

external-url-viewer "urlview"

bind-key j down
bind-key k up
bind-key j next articlelist
bind-key k prev articlelist
bind-key J next-feed articlelist
bind-key K prev-feed articlelist
bind-key G end
bind-key g home
bind-key d pagedown
bind-key u pageup
bind-key l open
bind-key h quit
bind-key a toggle-article-read
bind-key n next-unread
bind-key N prev-unread
bind-key D pb-download
bind-key U show-urls
bind-key x pb-delete
bind-key LEFT quit
bind-key RIGHT open

color listnormal cyan default
# color listfocus black yellow standout bold
color listnormal_unread color183 default
#color listnormal_unread color45 default
color listfocus_unread yellow default bold
# color listfocus_read black default default
color info red black bold
color article cyan default

highlight feedlist "---.*---" color87 default bold
# highlight feedlist "---.*---" [COLOR_OF_YOUR_CHOOSING] default bold
highlight feedlist ".*0/0.." default default invis

browser chromium
# browser linkhandler
macro , open-in-browser
# macro v set browser " xfce4-terminal --hide-menubar --hide-borders --drop-down -x mpv "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
macro m set browser " xfce4-terminal -x mpv "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
macro a set browser " xfce4-terminal -x audacious "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
#macro r set browser " i3 exec mpv "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
# macro y set browser " spawndl "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
macro w set browser " lynx "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
# macro w set browser " w3m "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
# macro p set browser " dmenuhandler "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
# c copies the link to the clipboard
# The link bellow is probably the skiddiest that Luke has ever written
macro c set browser " copy (){ echo $1 | xclip ; } ; copy "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:30 am**

bobbee wrote: Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:21 am As far as browser pop up notifications, I've only seen them pop up in the browser and never when the browser was closed.

Chrome-based browsers seem to have the ability to do exactly that. I can show you a screenshot later of a Brave popup if I turn on Brave Reward Ads with the browser closed. I would check your notification settings on each one of them, especially Dissenter.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:31 am**

I have chromium dissenter and brave installed but mostly I have been using chromium, lately as it has been better for blocking youtube adds with a plugin.

have not seen a youtube advert in years with any browser

i think ublock origin kills them dead

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:39 am**

andyprough wrote: Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:30 am
bobbee wrote: Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:21 am As far as browser pop up notifications, I've only seen them pop up in the browser and never when the browser was closed.
Chrome-based browsers seem to have the ability to do exactly that. I can show you a screenshot later of a Brave popup if I turn on Brave Reward Ads with the browser closed. I would check your notification settings on each one of them, especially Dissenter.

Is this setting in brave responsible (turned off in my case)?

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:02 am**

Chromium defaults to having the less intrusive settings.
Dissenter has settings much like brave but does not auto update. And an update has not been made for a long time. And it wasn't a problem before.
Brave defaults to allot of settings that I don't like including that crypto stuff and password saving.
I disable pretty much everything, but it is always updating so maybe I need to go through the settings again.
If any, I would suspect brave.

I just went through the brave settings, nothing new or changed jumps out at me.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:05 am**

I have brave and Dissenter set to NOT run in the background when closed if that makes a difference.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 1:43 pm**

bobbee wrote: Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:05 am I have brave and Dissenter set to NOT run in the background when closed if that makes a difference.

If you send a screenshot then maybe I can get some further idea. There's nothing natively in MX that does this.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 1:54 pm**

andyprough wrote: Thu Apr 01, 2021 1:43 pm
bobbee wrote: Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:05 am I have brave and Dissenter set to NOT run in the background when closed if that makes a difference.
If you send a screenshot then maybe I can get some further idea. There's nothing natively in MX that does this.

Exactly and by the way the "native" notification that you see in MX can be used by other programs to send notifications, including browsers. You can try yourself "notify-send Blah blah"

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 2:10 pm**

Yes, the framework is used by apps. To me it seems like the newsreader or browser ads.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 6:42 pm**

https://imgur.com/biPp9EH.png

So I got another. This time I saved a cap.

As far as what i trending, I have no idea what that is.

It could be a browser or news reader thing.

Or I might not be able to find what is doing it.

Adrian, What would you like a screenshot of? Browser settings?

Maybe it is in the Chromium settings as that is the only browser that I have running right now.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:54 pm**

bobbee wrote: Thu Apr 01, 2021 6:42 pm https://imgur.com/biPp9EH.png

So I got another. This time I saved a cap.

As far as what i trending, I have no idea what that is.

It could be a browser or news reader thing.

Or I might not be able to find what is doing it.

Adrian, What would you like a screenshot of? Browser settings?

Maybe it is in the Chromium settings as that is the only browser that I have running right now.

Looks like a typical browser popup notifier, although the corners are sqaured off, whereas the corners are rounded off on the ones on my standard MX XFCE desktop. See the screenshot I attached of a Brave Rewards Ad popup.

Are you using the Gnome desktop? Your window decorations look Gnome-ish in that screenshot. I wonder if Gnome has something that pops up those notifications?

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:06 pm**

It is not the brave pop-up like that, it is the system notifier, like when it says that I have a low battery.

I'm running The mx for newer systems, the normal one wouldn't load.

And my desktop is the standard XFCE, I just changed the settings.

It is rare that I get the pop-up so it will be harder to find the cause, I think maybe I'm going to have to switch browser for a while, maybe terminate some processes or something.

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:09 pm**

bobbee wrote: Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:06 pm It is not the brave pop-up like that, it is the system notifier, like when it says that I have a low battery.

I'm running The mx for newer systems, the normal one wouldn't load.

And my desktop is the standard XFCE, I just changed the settings.

It is rare that I get the pop-up so it will be harder to find the cause, I think maybe I'm going to have to switch browser for a while, maybe terminate some processes or something.

What is the "Power Manager" widget you are using? I looked at your earlier screenshot with the power manager message popup - I don't get notifiers that look like that from my normal XFCE Power Manager widget. I'm wondering if you grabbed a different power manager widget from a website somewhere?

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:53 pm**

andyprough wrote: Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:09 pm What is the "Power Manager"

I never changed it, it should be whatever it comes with.

It is XFCE Power Manager

Posted: **Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:00 pm**

@bobbee please edit your post #26 and put the config info in code tags so it's readable.

Please edit your post using the pencil icon

to wrap the information inside of code tags as per the forum rules. Example: [code]log file contents, configuration file contents and terminal text go here[/code]
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to make it look like this, which is a lot easier to read for large amounts of text:
1. It really stands out as being separate from the text that you're typing due to the different background and font colors
2. It also puts it inside of its own little frame with its own scrollbars, making it easier to navigate.
To do this, select the text by dragging your mouse over it while holding the left button down then click the </> icon in the forum's editor's toolbar and click the Submit button.

Thanks.

I don't see Chromium Dissenter anywhere in the tabs in MX Package Installer. Where did you get it? Also, those games and other apps you mentioned, what were they, where did they come from, how did you install and remove them? One of those could have left something behind that's causing the notifications. My money is on your RSS app but without being able to read that great big wall of plain text (please, please read the forum rules) I have no idea if there's something there that's set up to get a Reddit RSS feed.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:05 am**

@bobbee , you may not be changing something intentionally, but you have changed/added something which is causing this.
As stated already, there is nothing that comes stock in MX that does this. I can't be 100%, but I am 99.9% sure that nothing in/from the MX repos is causing this.

Looking at that output you gave earlier leads down a long and dark rabbit hole (pun intended), which I'm not going to go all the way down because its a waste to do without seeing everything on your system.
But...

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# macro y set browser " spawndl "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
# The link bellow is probably the skiddiest that Luke has ever written
macro c set browser " copy (){ echo $1 | xclip ; } ; copy "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium

This led me here ... AAAA.//git.kocotian.pl/dotfiles/commit/03b06725a117b22f08083ca717040284960aa6bd.htmlAAAA. which includes patches for a .newsboat/config
Which led me to a page that FireFox says is a risk and VirusTotal detects as "phishing" and "suspicious" so I won't post it at all, but digging more led me here ... AAAA.//github.com/LukeSmithxyz/LARBS.AAAA., which has a bunch of rando dot files, scripts, etc, etc.

That AAAA.://git.kocotian.pl/AAAA. is a repo with what looks like a ton of random rehashes, forks, and stuffs of applications, scripts and config files.

NOTICE how I didn't make those URLS actual links? Thats because I don't recommend going to them.
The owners of those sites, applications, scripts, etc may not be doing anything nefarious intentionally, but you never know, and for sure they don't know if someone is using their stuff in a bad way.

A long story short, something you did at some point in time is causing this. It is probably something that came from an untrusted source. By untrusted I mean its not vetted/checked and obviously has caused unintended things to happen to your computer.

Edit: Also I forgot to bring up the Dissenter extension, if I had to put my money on anything doing this its that. I'm not going to discuss any thing about Dissenter, because we have forum rules, and I have rules as a human being keeping me from not wasting my time to talk about such things.

I would reinstall from scratch, make sure you at least clear the partition table from the drive using GParted from the live USB before running the MX Installer. Then don't mess with any stuffs from whereever you were getting stuff and don't reinstall Dissenter.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:21 am**

andyprough wrote: Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:54 pm ...although the corners are sqaured off, whereas the corners are rounded off on the ones on my standard MX XFCE desktop...

That seems to vary, well it does on MX 18.3 anyway, sometimes it will have rounded corners and other times it will have squared off corners.
I'm not sure what triggers the different appearance.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:37 am**

JayM wrote: Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:00 pm @bobbee please edit your post #26 and put the config info in code tags so it's readable.

done

I don't see Chromium Dissenter anywhere in the tabs in MX Package Installer."

Chromium is in the "Popular packages in the package manager.

I got Dissenter from the Dissenter browser website. And I've had the same version for a couple years with no updates, the reason I stopped using it is because youtube changed their adds so that dissenter didn't block them very well.

Where did you get it? Also, those games and other apps you mentioned, what were they, where did they come from, how did you install and remove them?

I got them in the stable repo and I uninstalled them the same way one was btanks and one was atanks and the other two I don't remember, but I'll try to figure it out and post them.

Oh, one is warzone 2100, I still have it installed. Have been playing it some.

My money is on your RSS app but without being able to read that great big wall of plain text (please, please read the forum rules) I have no idea if there's something there that's set up to get a Reddit RSS feed.

And NewsBoat is pretty simple.

It loads the rss feeds from a urls file which is made using a plain text editor.
Most of the URLS are for youtube and bitchute videos, though I do have some from a couple other sites. Corbetreport.com, and NaturalNews.com and infowars.com, I think that is about it.
And the way that it notifies of unread rss is the text changes color.

Anyway I shut it down now and closed the terminal, will see what that does.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 1:33 am**

SwampRabbit wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:05 ambut you have changed/added something which is causing this.

I have done something, I think that is pretty obvious by now.

Looking at that output you gave earlier leads down a long and dark rabbit hole (pun intended), which I'm not going to go all the way down because its a waste to do without seeing everything on your system.

how very mysterious.

On the websites, The luke Smith one is a guy who has a youtube channel and he sometimes posts linux tutorials mostly for linux terminal commands vim, and such. And he has several websites where he posts journals and code from his tutorials.

And I know that it is shocking but he also has a github where he posts code for all the world to read. Which I also did not download. Well, not so much code as bash scripts.

I did watch his video where he talks about how he set up newsboat for himself. No I did not download or use his script. I edited mine manually. And I learned how to do so from the NewsBoat website. which NewsBoat is in the stable repostitory, an that is how I installed it from the stable repository.

The other websites that you mention, I don't know. The only thing that I downloaded was in the repository, and the configs I edited them myself.

As far as the code, The lines beginning with a # are commented out.
And the set browser command and then another command and set browser again. The reason for that is that Newsboat is a News Reader, not a video streamer and it needs a work around to steam video or audio. Which the work around is to set the program to open to MPV video player and it passes the web url to that. Then after the video is finished , it sets it back to open the browser.

The code is not nefarious and the tutorial says exactly what it does.

NOTICE how I didn't make those URLS actual links? Thats because I don't recommend going to them.
The owners of those sites, applications, scripts, etc may not be doing anything nefarious intentionally, but you never know, and for sure they don't know if someone is using their stuff in a bad way.

Yes, while I'm sure that I did something, aside from dissenter which I have had installed for years, and is basically an offshoot of brave browser which is from chrome, I have not downloaded anything from any other site. Only from the repository. In installs past, I had, for a version of vim not in the repo or some such thing, but I haven't needed to for this install.

Which, btw, the guys have done a great job expanding the repository popular packages.

A long story short, something you did at some point in time is causing this. It is probably something that came from an untrusted source. By untrusted I mean its not vetted/checked and obviously has caused unintended things to happen to your computer.

Again, yes, yes, I probably installed something that is causing this. But I disagree on the entrusted sites. I haven't.. Triple swear, cross my pinky fingers

Edit: Also I forgot to bring up the Dissenter extension, if I had to put my money on anything doing this its that. I'm not going to discuss any thing about Dissenter, because we have forum rules, and I have rules as a human being keeping me from not wasting my time to talk about such things.

[I don't know why the animosity toward Dissenter.
But I like the creator, Andrew Torba, who for sure would not link me to redit or google or face book.

Besides which, as I have said, I have run the very same version for years with no issue. Even as far back as when Io was running MX 15.

The problem is recent.

But I might just end up doing a reinstall.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 1:59 am**

There are sites where, if you visit them, display a dropdown/pop-up message at the top asking if you would like to receive notifications from that page. If you'd accidentally answered yes instead of no, that setting will be stored somewhere in your browser settings and you would regularly get pop-ups with news from that page.

[ADDED] as an example, go visit www.cnet.com

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 2:01 am**

Maybe clearing all browser caches and deleting all cookies would fix this then?

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 2:31 am**

The bluish weird notification theme? Have you tried changing the notify theme from xfce notification settings and test with "preview" button?

Can you post:
apt list | grep dunst
apt list | grep xfce4-notifyd

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 2:54 am**

@bobbee trust who you want to trust, don't matter to me, but MX isn't the one who created your pop up issue its one of the many things that came from people you trust.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 9:38 am**

asqwerth wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 1:59 am There are sites where, if you visit them, display a dropdown/pop-up message at the top asking if you would like to receive notifications from that page.

A great reminder to always answer no, facebook is terrible for that. I have a browser where it deletes all cookies and history every time I close it and facebook asks and asks and asks.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 9:41 am**

JayM wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 2:01 am Maybe clearing all browser caches and deleting all cookies would fix this then?

This is a great idea, I have newsboat shut down right now, so far so good.

Maybe it is newsboat.

I think clearing browser cookies an history is next on the list.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 9:44 am**

SwampRabbit wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 2:54 am @bobbee trust who you want to trust, don't matter to me, but MX isn't the one who created your pop up issue its one of the many things that came from people you trust.

I get that, It could be that some software slipped something in on an update. I'm not blaming MX and thinking back, my original post could have been better worded.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:24 am**

1. you need to identify which browser it comes from (it can be only from a browser it's running at the moment)
2. in the browser settings you need to eliminate sites that can send you messages, for example in Chrome:

At the top right, click More and then Settings.
Under "Privacy and security," click Site settings.
Click Notifications.
Choose to block or allow notifications:
Allow or Block all: Turn on or off Sites can ask to send notifications.
Block a site: Next to "Block," click Add. Enter the site and click Add.
Allow a site: Next to "Allow," click Add. Enter the site and click Add.
Allow quieter notification prompts: Allow sites to ask to send notifications, then click Use quieter messaging (blocks notification prompts from interrupting you). You won't get notifications after you ignore multiple notifications from a site, or if other users typically don't allow notifications from a site.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:25 am**

agnivo007 wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 2:31 am The bluish weird notification theme? Have you tried changing the notify theme from xfce notification settings and test with "preview" button?

Can you post:
apt list | grep dunst
apt list | grep xfce4-notifyd

https://imgur.com/WXNuL8U.png

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:40 am**

Adrian wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:24 am 1. you need to identify which browser it comes from (it can be only from a browser it's running at the moment)
2. in the browser settings you need to eliminate sites that can send you messages, for example in Chrome:
At the top right, click More and then Settings.
Under "Privacy and security," click Site settings.
Click Notifications.
Choose to block or allow notifications:
Allow or Block all: Turn on or off Sites can ask to send notifications.
Block a site: Next to "Block," click Add. Enter the site and click Add.
Allow a site: Next to "Allow," click Add. Enter the site and click Add.
Allow quieter notification prompts: Allow sites to ask to send notifications, then click Use quieter messaging (blocks notification prompts from interrupting you). You won't get notifications after you ignore multiple notifications from a site, or if other users typically don't allow notifications from a site.

I think that I'm missing the first couple instructions, I don't know where that menu is.

I do have the notifier properties. I have some screen caps.

https://imgur.com/CRwyOlI.png
https://imgur.com/cjYyguj.png
https://imgur.com/X3kENo3.png
https://imgur.com/MGzhgTQ.png

I have to look around if I can find that where I can block aps from the notifier.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:42 am**

Please don't post images of text, copy the text and paste it inside code tags. Text can be searched by others looking for solutions to similar problems, images can't.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:47 am**

^^

yon need to look in your browser settings ....not your system settings

in chrome, i think it is still 3 dots to open the menu

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:58 am**

Adrian wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:24 am 1. you need to identify which browser it comes from

After reading this again, I see that it is for the browser settings.

My menus are a bit different from chrome. I don't see that particular setting in my browsers.

It did give me an Idea and I did a search. on the whisker menu for MK and there is an app to "Customize Notifications"

That is handy. It won't let me enable history, it is greyed out, but I can do some nice customize and turn things on and off.
Now I can turn some off and figure it out.

Nice.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 11:17 am**

junoluna wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:47 am ^^

yon need to look in your browser settings ....not your system settings

I don't have chrome installed, I can show some scrn caps from chromium.

https://imgur.com/CTG0bt6.png

I believe the problem is found.

I went through the menus 5 times and didn't see this.

I'm sorry if I was a nuisance.

On the positive side, I did learn some things.

Thank you all.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:04 pm**

bobbee wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 9:44 am I get that, It could be that some software slipped something in on an update. I'm not blaming MX and thinking back, my original post could have been better worded.

Nothing should have slipped anything as an update from the MX repos that would cause this to happen.

If any update came down from something you manually (or added an external repo) installed or through added config files and scripts than that’s a different story, and than that goes back to my other post.

These things happen when people use external software or add external config files and scripts without actually knowing what they do. You can’t just trust what someone says it/they will do on a website or YouTube.

Trust but verify... the only way to verify is to actually review the code.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:36 pm**

bobbee wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:25 am
agnivo007 wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 2:31 am The bluish weird notification theme? Have you tried changing the notify theme from xfce notification settings and test with "preview" button?

Can you post:
apt list | grep dunst
apt list | grep xfce4-notifyd
https://imgur.com/WXNuL8U.png

You didn't post apt list | grep dunst

If you have dunst installed, the weird blue notification theme will remain!

Also, I didn't know if you were able to change the theme and it works.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 4:42 pm**

agnivo007 wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:36 pm You didn't post apt list | grep dunst

If you have dunst installed, the weird blue notification theme will remain!

Also, I didn't know if you were able to change the theme and it works.

$ apt list | grep dunst

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

Code: Select all

$ apt list | grep dunst

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

dunst-dbgsym/mx 1.4.1-1~mx19+1 amd64
dunst-dbgsym/mx 1.4.1-1~mx19+1 i386
dunst/stable,now 1.3.2-1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
dunst/stable 1.3.2-1 i386

I thought I had both, they look so similar.

I was not able to change the theme of the notifier, Unless it requires a restart which I did not do.

Does that mean if I do an Apt uninstall dunst, it wourld work?

I don't know what these are.

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 5:32 pm**

Yes, dunst is overtaking your xfce notify preferences and themes. It comes with i3 window manager generally, dunno where you picked it from. Uninstalling dunst will return xfce functionality to normal.

sudo apt purge dunst

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 5:48 pm**

agnivo007 wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 5:32 pm Yes, dunst is overtaking your xfce notify preferences and themes. It comes with i3 window manager generally, dunno where you picked it from. Uninstalling dunst will return xfce functionality to normal.

sudo apt purge dunst

But do I need it for anything else?

What else does it do... it must have some sort of purpose?

Posted: **Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:50 pm**

A web search is your friend: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=dunst+ ... 1-1&ia=web

From https://dunst-project.org/:

Dunst is a lightweight replacement for the notification daemons provided by most desktop environments. It’s very customizable, isn’t dependent on any toolkits, and therefore fits into those window manager centric setups we all love to customize to perfection.

It's available in MX Package Installer, Stable Repo but isn't preinstalled, so you must have installed it yourself, or you installed something else that also installed dunst as a dependency.

Posted: **Sun Apr 25, 2021 8:33 am**

JmaCWQ wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:21 am
andyprough wrote: Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:54 pm ...although the corners are sqaured off, whereas the corners are rounded off on the ones on my standard MX XFCE desktop...
That seems to vary, well it does on MX 18.3 anyway, sometimes it will have rounded corners and other times it will have squared off corners.
I'm not sure what triggers the different appearance.

Found it, it's something to do with transparency/compositing, I noticed it while unmounting external hard drives & USB sticks with compositing turned on and off, it also seems to effect the notification preview.
Transparency on, rounded corners.
Transparency off, squared corners.

Top one transparency on.
Bottom one transparency off.

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