disable evolution gnome notifications (display duplicate in calendar notifications)

disable-calendar-evolution-notifications.txt

In the file /etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop I changed the line
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;XFCE;Dawati;MATE;
to
NotShowIn=GNOME;

Hi folks,

I looked at several sites (listed below) when trying to get rid of the Evolution reminders.

What worked for me was just deleting ~/.local/share/evolution/calendar/system/calendar.ics

The file hasn’t been recreated, even after multiple reboots, and even though System Monitor still shows evolution-alarm-notify as up and running (along with the other three Evolution processes).

I haven’t needed to amend /etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop (contents listed below).

I haven’t needed to uninstall the evolution-data-server package.

I’m running Thunderbird 102.11.0 (64-bit) under Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy.

(Sorry about the list spacings - I couldn't get them single spaced.)

Regards,

John

/etc/xdg/autostart/org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]

Type=Application

Name=Evolution Alarm Notify

Comment=Calendar event notifications

Icon=appointment-soon

Exec=/usr/libexec/evolution-data-server/evolution-alarm-notify

Terminal=false

Categories=

NoDisplay=true

X-Meego-Priority=Low

X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME

X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=evolution-data-server

X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=calendar

X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=3.44.x

X-GNOME-UsesNotifications=true

X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=evolution-data-server

URLs:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1317784/how-to-stop-evolution-alarm-notify?newreg=59ce4757752f480ea82d66afe39efff4
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/295

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2471850

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=360882

https://gist.github.com/anibalardid/8c87fb32d94c89326390045bb88e112a