Disable Evolution notifications in Ubuntu

Update 17-Apr-2008

The steps below don’t seem to solve the problem. For the moment the easiest way to get rid of the Evolution letter icon (which appears in the notification_area) is to create a new panel, drag across the stuff you want, and delete the old panel (package update notifications will then appear on the Panel Menu – TODO check update-notifier is removed). I can see notification_area in gconf-editor at /apps/panel/applets, but can’t yet work out a way of deleting it – right clicking etc doesn’t work. Will play with gconftool and RTFM.

End Updates

I’ve just started using Evolution to access the hExchange server at work, and it keeps on popping up new email notifications (even though I’ve disabled it in Evolution and restarted X) – too much like Winblows for my likings. Other crap keeps popping up and annoying me too – here’s how to disable it all:

First, disable the update-notifier via: “System > Preferences > Sessions”, under “Startup Programs”; remove “update-notifier”. Also check that it isn’t being started up in the saved session by first killing it (ps ax | grep update; kill 12345) and saving a new session.

Then, run gconf-editor (from the shell) search on notification, and disable:

• /apps/evolution/mail/notification

See also:

• Question #3921 in gnome-panel in ubuntu.