[tach4n]

I'm convinced there is a real productivity loss due to OSX's limited notifications system.

On OSX you get a tiny little bubble in the upper right from your chat program and if you miss it, too bad. I've seen people resorting to shouting or tapping on shoulders because of this. Trying to do something as simple as change the font size was difficult or impossible.

On linux I get nice big notifications. If I miss or choose to ignore them, my WM highlights windows that need my attention and they stay that way till I get to it.

There are fixes no doubt, but this lack of "customizability" permeates OSX and seems to be getting worse.

[citruspi]

> There are fixes no doubt, but this lack of "customizability"

System Preferences -> Notifications -> [Application] -> Style -> 'Alert'

Under that it says

> Banners automatically appear in the upper-right corner and go away automatically. Alerts stay on screen until dismissed.

[tach4n]

How about font size? How long they stay? Etc?

There is a very limited number of things to change in there is what I am saying.

[acdha]

1. As others have pointed out, you can change the style to alert

2. The system notification center (the icon on the upper right corner or a two-finger swipe from the right on a trackpad) lists every notification you haven't cancelled:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q0o7gq7ndcbokin/Screenshot%202015-...

[tach4n]

As I said many hours before your comment; these solutions are clunky and limited compared to what's available to me on linux...

[diymaker]

You can change to notification style to be an "alert" rather than a "banner". Alerts do not go away unless dismissed, so they cannot be missed even if you were afk for 5 minutes. That should solve the missed notifications problem.

[tach4n]

It sort of solves it, in a clunky way compared to the elegant setup I easily achieved in linux...