Banner Be Gone — Close notification alerts

[vitor]

I was close to removing it this time, but then I remembered you used it and how happy you were when I restored support for Sonoma, so I didn’t let the frustration with Apple get the best of me.

 

By the way, I did make a tweak to it in the previous version. It’s an improvement I’ve made for the Sequoia version that specifically handles dismissing too many notifications (like a screen full). It should be good for Sonoma and Ventura too, but if you notice that dismissing too many notifications now requires calling the workflow multiple times in a row, please let me know and I’ll revert that section.

[sepulchra]

Thanks again. I'm hoping i can make the jump the sequoia within the next 2 months but Avid's Pro Tools is still exhibiting too many bugs to make the jump just yet. It is getting closer!

[vitor]

@sepulchra Found yet another break caused by the latest version of Sequoia, and in the process of fixing it came up with something which hopefully will be more robust going forward. Now the question is: is it also a solution going backwards?

Would you mind checking if this version works for you? If it doesn’t, could you run testclear? It’ll copy a line to your clipboard that you can paste here.

This won’t take long. If that works for you, I’ll release a new version. If it doesn’t, the output of that command will either give me enough information to fix it or I’ll just not do anything and keep the branching path in the workflow.

Thank you.

[sepulchra]

@vitor it appears to working. I've tested it on several notifications and no issues. FYI i'm on 14.7.2

Edited December 23, 2024 by sepulchra

[vitor]

@sepulchra Thank you for the fast response, I’ll release the new version shortly. Wishes of a warm holiday season!

[vitor]

Updated to 2024.7.

• Revamped code with new approach for several macOS versions.
• Works with old notifications in Notification Centre when visible.

This new solution should better survive Apple updates. It’s quite fresh so it may still get a few tweaks, but I wanted to get it out because the previous 15.2 solution missed some types of notifications.

[sepulchra]

45 minutes ago, vitor said:

@sepulchra Thank you for the fast response, I’ll release the new version shortly. Wishes of a warm holiday season!

You as well.

 

This workflow will have me pumping up my hotkey usage stats during the time off work.

[vitor]

Updated to 2024.8.

Attempt to clear all in a row instead of sequentially to avoid changing notification stack.

[vitor]

Updated to 2025.1.

Notification Center is insane and its behaviour can change after each cleared notification or even if there’s an external monitor connected, so this updates the technique yet again. Thankfully I’ve been able to keep the code fairly simple.