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How to disable "Mouse battery low" notification in Ubuntu 20.04? This notification is spam and pops up all the time and does not go away until you close it. It covers a portion of the screen that is important. It breaks up the flow of work and greatly diminishes work efficiency.

There needs to be a solution for this problem. It is a Problem. A Big Problem.

Not being able to turn of this notification is not acceptable.

Archisman Panigrahi
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Víðarr Kerr
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This is probably happening because your mouse is entering and exiting it's sleep mode.

You can turn off this notification by going into Settings -> Notifications -> Power and adjusting these settings. You can turn them off completely or just turn off the notification popups. If you have a UPS this might also turn off those notifications too, but I am not 100% sure since I haven't tested it.

I also found this YouTube video describing the steps I explained above.

If you are of the hacker type you can try somethings like this:

https://wrgms.com/disable-mouse-battery-low-spam-notification/

Pablo Bianchi
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Dennis Fazekas
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The most logical solution I've found is to lower the Power Plugins Critical Level warning. This way you can decide when the system will warn you about low battery levels.

Warning:
This will affect all low-battery messages, not just the ones for your mouse.

You will want to get dconf-editor and configure when the system will warn you about low power levels:

  1. open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T)
  2. run sudo apt install dconf-tools
  3. open the application and go to Org ⇢ Gnome ⇢ Settings Daemon ⇢ Plugins ⇢ Power
  4. Change the "Percentage Low" setting to something that works better for you, such as 5%

Keep in mind that this affects all low-battery messages. So, if you're using a notebook and you're away from a power outlet, you may not see the message until it's too late.

Pablo Bianchi
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