I am using the included Firefox with Debian and when I receive an e-mail, WhatsApp message, or so on, I get a nice little KDE popup in my bottom right corner just how I like it, but there is one major problem - it simply disappears too quickly! If you don’t catch it while you’re at the computer, it goes away after a measly 5 seconds, I’d prefer it stayed forever. And if it can’t stay forever, then where is the notification center?
In Windows 11 all popups stay on my screen until dismissed so I never miss an update.
And if it gets dismissed without me seeing it, there is a notification center in the bottom right tray
There is a notification history accessible via a small “bell” icon in the “system tray”, usually at the right side of the default panel configuration.
You can configure the timeout for notifications both system wide and application specific.
You can either go through the System Settings application or launch directly into the Notification settings using the global search function (sometimes called KRunner) which is accessible via keyboard shortcuts ALT+F2 and ALT+Space
How do you set an application-specific timeout? I can see the systemwide setting (“Hide after” under “Popups”) in the Notifications area of the settings app. But when I go to “Application Settings” as per the screenshot, I can’t see where to set a timeout per application.
i was gonna say i think the time out period is determined by the application and if they don’t expose a setting for it in their application then its fixed and cannot be changed.
explore the settings in the application to see if there are any controls over notification.
i’ve also noticed that the bell icon doesn’t give the full history as some notifications roll off and the desktop and are not listed in the history… again it seems it depends on the app that issues the notification to control this.
