Notifications not being shown correctly when using the Windows 10 screensaver (+login screen) setting
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Hi, I'm using Join to receive persistent smartphone calendar notifications that have to be clicked away instead of disappearing after a few minutes which is an unconvenient thing Windows Calendar would do.
So far I'm happy. The following thing doesn't work though:
Let's say I use a screensaver with the "login page at reactivation"-setting activated on Windows 10 and get 3 notifications while I was afk: only the first will be shown on the login screen and after logging back in the others will still not appear (which they would if you used no screensaver+login page at reactivation)
I tried to look for some workarounds:
-screensaver without login page at reactivation ->no visual notifications (you can hear their sound though)
-completely signing off from my current usersession ->no notifications at all
-sleep mode -> no notifications at all
-Using the "Turning off the display after x minutes" setting -> worked, but I avoided this setting for several reasons:
For one thing, I run stuff in the background that interferes with it. I'd need to make more complicated adjustments to that. But more importantly, this setting makes my BenQ GW2470 monitor show a blue full brightness notification on the screen (which I could btw only avoid by using the setting "hdmi auto switch" and disconnect my second device, the raspberry pi from the monitor so that I don't have to manually switch back to my main monitor each time the display turns off via the windows setting. Now I only get a black screen with a smaller white full brightness "no input found", better but not optimal)
You couldn't even solve the issue by turning off the monitor via a smart ac plug because when turning it on afterwards, you get a full brightness blue screen with an ironic "BenQ eye care" logo as well
What I need to do now is look out for another monitor that doesn't have this issue. Let's see if I can find one.
A lot of people may face a part of this issue to some degree so it could be a good idea if you tried to find a fix for the login screen/screen saver notifications.
Unfortunately since this is using Chrome notifications (which are redirected to the Windows Notification Center) I have no control over how this works sorry. :/ Wish I could help somehow but I don't think I can. Maybe Chrome devs can do something about it?
Unfortunately since this is using Chrome notifications (which are redirected to the Windows Notification Center) I have no control over how this works sorry. :/ Wish I could help somehow but I don't think I can. Maybe Chrome devs can do something about it?
Hmm, I wonder if they would actually do anything if I mentioned it. Perhaps if I open a thread on like the chrome forums and it gets some traction
Perhaps you might look into it with your new Join desktop program. Can you implement making notifications stay on your screen longer than 5 minutes on that one too? I didn't mention it in my post because I just started using Join and realized that it behaves like that just one day later but this is even more important to me than the issue I described in my post.
That's because I'd use Join for calendar notifications as they don't stay on your screen for longer than a few minutes when using Windows Calendar either.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to do that yet... Will have to figure out a way to do it maybe without using Windows notification center which seems too limited. Thanks!
thank you too
I'll keep an eye out for the updates