How to prevent the panel from appearing when a notification is received in KDE?

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I am setting the panel at the bottom to “Dodge windows”, so it hides automatically when i am in full screen window.

When i receive a notification, the panel appears, it’s so annoying cuz the panel appears suddenly when i am typing something in another app and the message box is at the bottom is hidden by the panel. I have to click on the other window that has the notification to un-highlight it and hide the panel again.

How can i prevent the panel from appearing when receiving a notification ?

Operating System: KDE neon User Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.11.0-26-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
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I’ve only recently switched to Plasma, and this one also drives me crazy. Hope there’s some trick or workaround for this

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Set “Notifications” to “Do not disturb”?

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it would be nice to still see the notifications without panel popping up. but dnd will work for now, thanks :slight_smile:

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Isn’t the notifications popup even more distracting than the panel, though? I am not sure what you are trying to accomplish, but if it is a distraction-free experience when working, watching a film or gaming, this is the way.

If you want something more granular, you can actually configure notifications on an app-per-app basis:

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Like this, you can switch off some notifications completely or elevate others to break through the DnD mode.

Like that you can have three types of notification according to importance:

  1. Unimportant notifications, which never activate the popup
  2. Semimportant notifications, which do not activate the popup when DnD mode
  3. Important notifications, which always activate the popup
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Thanks a lot, I think I’ll set it up the way it makes sense for me.

well, notification shows what it’s about and then disappears, while the panel stays on top without clear indication what happened unless I open the app that sent it. maybe I’m missing something, but for me just notifications work much better

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That screen doesn’t explicitly provide a way to let notification types break through DnD mode.

Is it implicit that when you configure a notification type to “play a sound”, that it becomes Critical and therefore can break through DnD?

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I think I found just the setting I was looking for :partying_face:

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This is the solution, thanks

Hiding in plain sight

I feel stupid that i didn’t check the task bar settings …

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I was looking for this setting because Telegram was grabbing attention. I turned this checkbox off and there was a friendly warning that came up on top

If you’re using this setting to work around an application that demands attention too often, first look for a setting in the app to disable that behavior. If you don’t find one, consider reporting this as a bug to the app’s developer.

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Turns out Telegram actually had a setting like that which I turned off (Settings → Notifications and Sounds → Draw attention to the window)

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