Dismiss notifications as they arrive?

arun · February 27, 2020, 7:16am

This seems straightforward, but I am having some troubles identifying the specific triggers/actions to do the job. Here goes:

A notification arrives from an app "X"
When that happens, Keyboard Maestro should dismiss that notification/close that notification.

Is there a specific trigger, and a specific action to achieve this? I came across a third-party author's post that has a list of "Global macros" and of that list, there is one macro to dismiss notifications. I imported this list, but I am not sure how to use it.

So, I am back to square one and I am trying to setup this macro on my own. Any help would be great. Thank you!

hello · February 27, 2020, 3:12pm

found this macro, uses AppleScript and KM:

and another one:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/bezhermoso/5f45ace434a7b03c963a

notification-actions.applescript

# Close all notifications

my closeNotifications()
on closeNotifications()
	tell application "System Events" to tell process "Notification Center"
			set theWindows to every window
			repeat with i from 1 to number of items in theWindows
				set this_item to item i of theWindows
				try
					click button 1 of this_item

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additionally, you could also add a Periodic Trigger to the macro, to run a macro it every minute/second/hour/day/etc

JMichaelTX · February 27, 2020, 7:16pm

You can control the type of Notifications in the Notifications panel of System Preferences:
Change the setting from "Alerts" to "Banners", and the notification will show briefly and then auto close.

arun · February 28, 2020, 4:38am

Thanks @JMichaelTX and @hello! Both are great ideas; I have settled for Mac's Banners setting for now.

Dismiss notifications as they arrive?

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