View notifications history in Ubuntu 16.04. Install Recent Notifications and view desktop notifications history in Ubuntu 16.04 Systems. Recent Notifications indicator applet displays a list of recent notifications on system panel.
Recent Notifications is a GNOME applet that collects recent messages sent with libnotify to a notification daemon, such as notify-osd.
Install Recent Notifications
To install the Recent Notifications applet download the installer deb package from the link given below:
- http://ppa.launchpad.net/jconti/recent-notifications/ubuntu/pool/main/i/indicator-notifications/
Please select the correct package corresponding to the systems’ architecture – i386.deb for 32 Bit and amd64.deb for 64 Bit Ubuntu systems.
Please note that the Recent Notifications applet displays up to 5 messages. To change the number of visible notifications, edit the config file named gschema.xm. The location of the file is ‘usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/net.launchpad.indicator.notifications.gschema.xml’
Alternatively you can also run the following commands to install Recent Notifications:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jconti/recent-notifications
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-notifications
If you wish to uninstall Recent Notifications, run the following commands in Terminal:
sudo apt-get remove indicator-notifications
Or
sudo apt-get purge indicator-notifications
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:jconti/recent-notifications