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A few months ago, I started getting these pop-ups from evolution-alarm-notify. They are some kind of calendar reminder. But they are horribly inaccurate. They either don't reflect any changes I have made to calendar events or they include all previous versions of the events and may or may not include the current version of those events. And I can't seem to mark events as complete in the evolution-alarm-notify window.

I don't need these pop-ups and would prefer to just make them go away permanently. I don't have the Evolution mail app installed, and can't find an evolution-alarm-notify app on my system.

So how do I get rid of evolution-alarm notify?

Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS

GNOME 3.36.8

Dell Precision 7740

WAhydrohead
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You have to copy the /etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop file to your home folder by

mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart/
cp /etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop ~/.config/autostart/
sed -i "s/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/" ~/.config/autostart/org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop

and then disable its launch, either from gnome-session-properties (Startup Applications), or by adding a line with Hidden=true to the file. If you are using MATE, then use mate-session-properties instead of gnome-session-properties

Also disable its systemd user services:

systemctl --user mask evolution-addressbook-factory.service
systemctl --user mask evolution-calendar-factory.service
systemctl --user mask evolution-source-registry.service
systemctl --user mask evolution-user-prompter.service

and then reboot.

JanKanis
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N0rbert
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  • This appears to have worked! Thanks, N0rbert! It has been about a day and I have not seen a pop-up window. Though it also seems to have killed the notifications when I click on the date in the top bar. I do not care about these notifications enough to suffer the pop-up window. I do find it interesting that they are related though because the ones under the top bar were not plagued by the incorrect and out-of-date issues that the pop-up window had. But if anyone else is looking at this as a solution, and loves their top bar notifications, this may not be the solution for you. – WAhydrohead Feb 21 '21 at 15:51
  • Do you know of a way to stop the notifications for the current session? (without disabling them) – sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio Feb 15 '22 at 17:17
  • @sancho.sReinstateMonicaCellio `gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.notifications.application:/org/gnome/desktop/notifications/application/org-gnome-evolution/ enable false` helps? – Pablo Bianchi Nov 22 '22 at 03:02
  • I have gnome-sessions available, but not gnome-session-properties. How can I disable launch on startup? – Geoff Langenderfer Apr 17 '23 at 21:16
  • To disable autostart from the terminal, add a line to your `~/.config/autostart/org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop` containing `Hidden=true`, that will disable the file. – JanKanis Jun 01 '23 at 09:48
  • To only disable it for the current session, killing the `evolution-alarm-notify` process should be enough: `pkill evolution-alarm`. (Not tested as I don't have it running.) – JanKanis Jun 01 '23 at 09:53
  • If you only want to disable the annoying popups, there is (I think, not yet tested) no need to disable the systemd services. – JanKanis Jun 01 '23 at 09:53
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Notifications -> Evolution Alarms Notify -> Off

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    This seems lke its the best answer, as of May 2023. – Pickledegg May 17 '23 at 12:44
  • Does not seem to work in Ubuntu 23.04. – matthewn Jul 19 '23 at 16:01
  • As effortless, common sense, and problem-free as nix likes to be, claims to be, and wants to be, this setting seems to be a fly in the ointment, but depending on your point of view it may actually be its teaching moment. ¶If programs leave settings enabled as a way to, uh, *force the user to learn that its features are available, they'll never be exposed to it and they'll never learn how rich *nix and its programs' feature sets are. ¶It's a good problem to have. – The DOuGTrainer Aug 13 '23 at 17:22
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As mentioned in Jay Schauer's comment over here. The solution is to edit the file /etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop

Change the line OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;XFCE;Dawati;MATE; to NotShowIn=GNOME;

Log out and back in for the changes to take effect.

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  • This disables the desktop file in the GNOME environment. To disable the file unconditionally, add a line with `Hidden=true`, that will disable the file in all desktop environments. – JanKanis Jun 01 '23 at 09:44
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Open the evolution ui from the terminal with evolution. There you can disable the notifications easily

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I looked at several sites (listed below) when trying to get rid of the Evolution reminders.

What worked for me was just deleting ~/.local/share/evolution/calendar/system/calendar.ics

The file hasn’t been recreated, even after multiple reboots, and even though System Monitor still shows evolution-alarm-notify as up and running (along with the other three Evolution processes).

I haven’t needed to amend /etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop (contents listed below).

I haven’t needed to uninstall the evolution-data-server package.

I’m running Thunderbird 102.11.0 (64-bit) under Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy.

(Sorry about the list spacings - I couldn't get them single spaced.)

Regards,

John

/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]

Type=Application

Name=Evolution Alarm Notify

Comment=Calendar event notifications

Icon=appointment-soon

Exec=/usr/libexec/evolution-data-server/evolution-alarm-notify

Terminal=false

Categories=

NoDisplay=true

X-Meego-Priority=Low

X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME

X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=evolution-data-server

X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=calendar

X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=3.44.x

X-GNOME-UsesNotifications=true

X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=evolution-data-server

URLs:

How to stop evolution-alarm-notify https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/295

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2471850

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=360882

https://gist.github.com/anibalardid/8c87fb32d94c89326390045bb88e112a

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