Google Chrome is one of the most popular and powerful browsers that provides awesome support for native notifications. On other platforms like Windows or Mac, the notifications display correctly. The system itself follows Google standards for the best user experience. However, Linux users find it difficult utilizing the facility of Native Notifications on Linux. It’s because the notification system does hardly match the whole of the OS.
Native notifications can be annoying, but it’s also the easiest way of keeping yourself updated with the latest news and information. For example, I use native notification for receiving Facebook notifications and the latest tech news from different sites.
Now, let’s start fixing the notification system for Linux users.
Installing Chrome
Google is a great tech company providing Chrome for free. From the official site, you can get the latest & stable binary release for Ubuntu, Debian (DEB) and Fedora, OpenSUSE (RPM) packages.
Follow the command lines for installing the package according to your Linux distro. Let’s assume that the package file is saved in “~/Downloads” folder.
- Debian/Ubuntu
cd ~/Downloads sudo dpkg -i google-chrome_stable_current.deb sudo apt install -f
- OpenSUSE
cd ~/Downloads sudo zypper install google-chrome_stable_current.rpm
- Fedora
cd ~/Downloads sudo dnf install google-chrome_stable_current.rpm -y
- Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S git git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/google-chrome.git cd google-chrome makepkg -si
Native notification
For turning on the native notification on Chrome, open chrome and go to “chrome://flags”.
Search for “notifications Linux” on the search bar.
After you’ve found the option “Enable native notification”, enable it.
For turning off the notification service, you can disable the option stated above.
Enjoy the awesome notifications! For Linux users, “grep” can also be a really handy tool. Learn more about “grep” and its usage.
