Is there a working notifications indicator?

[Cosmos_Zhu]

Hello guys, I’m new to mate and I couldn’t find a notification indicator like recent notification applet. And when I tried to install recent notification applet the ppa just can’t fetch. So is there anything I can do to enble notification indicators so that I don’t miss them?

[electragician]

Hi Cosmos.

Are you on 14.10 or 15.04 and are you using the method detailed here?:

Enabling Indicators in Ubuntu MATE 14.10 and 15.04

Indicators are enabled by default in Ubuntu MATE 14.04 but for Ubuntu MATE 14.10 and 15.04 some configuration is required. The big caveat is that most of the Canonical created indicators dropped GTK2 sometime ago therefore the usefulness of these GTK2 indicators is limited. That said, it does provide a way have a really nice sound indicator. Install MATE indicator container Make sure you are using Ubuntu Utopic 14.10 or 15.04. Do not install the recommended packages as that will install all m…

Edit: I flagged this for General Discussion since it was uncategorized. I believe this is our support forum, at least for now

[Cosmos_Zhu]

I don’t have any problem with general notifications. It is working fine. The problem is I want to get something like recent notification applet and the PPA is not working. So I am looking for an alternative. Thanks for the fast reply : ).

[electragician]

Ah, sorry about that.

I didn’t even realize there was a recent notifications applet available for MATE. I’m assuming it’s something like the one for KDE and Gnome that retains all notifications till you clear them? Interesting.