How to stop evolution-alarm-notify

Question

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

Geoff Langenderfer · Answer 1 · 2023-11-14T20:13:19.107

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Notifications -> Evolution Alarms Notify -> Off

here's the repo if anyone wants to dig: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution

edited Nov 14 '23 at 20:13

answered Apr 25 '23 at 13:33

Geoff Langenderfer

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This seems lke its the best answer, as of May 2023. – Pickledegg May 17 '23 at 12:44
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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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Neither works in Ubuntu 22.04 – Albert Català Oct 11 '23 at 07:57
This still seems like the best answer, as of Nov 2023. – Pickledegg Nov 02 '23 at 09:56
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Doesn't work for me in 22.04 – Charles Thayer Nov 14 '23 at 17:11
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Upvoted for Material Shell – Jesse Dhillon Apr 22 '24 at 23:19

score 20 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 04 '23 at 23:58

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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.

edited Jun 04 '23 at 23:58

JanKanis

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answered Feb 20 '21 at 08:10

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
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@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

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered May 25 '21 at 01:00

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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.

answered May 25 '21 at 01:00

Tashif Hoda

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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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I have this file in 22.04 but it doesn't have this entry at all – Charles Thayer Nov 14 '23 at 17:12

score 3 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 26 '23 at 09:41

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.

/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:

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 26 '23 at 12:23

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Open the evolution ui from the terminal with evolution. There you can disable the notifications easily

answered Apr 26 '23 at 12:23

Gabriel Furstenheim

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