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Two notifications for empathy and no notification preferences tab?

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I am getting an issue with empathy.

When I am in a chat every time I send a message I get a standard gnome-shell notification echoing what I just set, the same applies for when a message is received.
After this notification disappears a second one pops up, being the empathy notification that allows me to reply.

After doing some Google searches I am being told to disable the bubble notifications in the empathy Preferences under Notifications.

Issue being, I don't have a Notifications tab.

What's up with that?

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answered 2 Years ago gerrin · Accepted Answer

I'm having this problem too since I switched to GNOME Shell on Ubuntu 12.04, and I tried Gevorg's solution but it didn't work.

Looking more closely at the file, I can see why: It turns off notifications for a bunch of things, but not for incoming messages.

Follow his instructions, but add the following line in between the gconf tags:

<entry name="notifications_message_received" mtime="1334850046" type="bool" value="false">

Also, don't use sudo to copy it in there or you'll screw up your permissions. Best to save the file, create the directories while you're doing that (right-click on the save file dialog to show hidden files, go into .gconf, go into apps, go into empathy, right-click to create new directory, call it notifications, go in there and save it).

After you've done that, you'll only get one notification on each incoming message, and it'll be the one that lets you reply inside of it. I.e. the right kind for GNOME Shell.

Has anyone filed a bug report about this? This behavior is pretty annoying.