The notification bubble does not fade out when mouse cursor is in the way, it just flickers. I noticed this by watching a movie. I changed the volume but did not noticed that my cursor is on the top right...i just saw the bubble doesn't fade out. ~$ inxi -S Kernel: 4.15.0-10-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: Ubuntu Bionic Beaver (development branch) ~$ apt-cache show xfce4-notifyd Package: xfce4-notifyd Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.4.2-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/x11 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Xubuntu Developers <xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Debian Xfce Maintainers <pkg-xfce-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 714 Provides: notification-daemon Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.43.91), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5), libnotify4 (>= 0.7.0), libx11-6, libxfce4panel-2.0-4 (>= 4.11.0), libxfce4ui-2-0 (>= 4.11.1), libxfce4util7 (>= 4.9.0), libxfconf-0-2 (>= 4.6.0) Recommends: libnotify-bin Filename: pool/universe/x/xfce4-notifyd/xfce4-notifyd_0.4.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 117664 MD5sum: 771bed9273ad0038d9156b54beac2fe0 SHA1: 109a21bc8fc96be578d960273082b7695ca17b81 SHA256: 61d29dde798cd651cffa70b82b996b6ecec6c5b1c25706101bea63e1a461170b
Not fading out the notification when the mouse hovers is a feature of notifyd, which has been around forever and hasn't changed behaviour since probably 0.2.x The idea is that users can stop the timeout to read the notification if they want. Tbh I'm not sure there's anything we can do about your issue without breaking this core feature. I suggest you move your mouse pointer out of the way when watching movies or enable the DND mode.
Oh i noticed i wrote 'fade out' but meant 'slide out' (damn foreign language :D) But yes you are right, the mouse pointer stops both of the animations. The problem was...the mouse-pointer was not directly over the notification-bubble but on the right side of the screen. So when the notification-bubble was sliding to the right side it collides after a few millimeters immediately with the pointer and then it jumps back to the place where it appears first > this i meant with 'flickering' and it looked a little bit strange. All i all its not a big problem because as you said > i can put the mouse pointer to another place. Thanks for your feedback Simon. Do i have to close this bug or do you close it?
No worries! You can close it or I can. But as you haven't already I will ;)