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On Windows 10, in Settings > Notifications & Actions I have notifications turned on for Slack. If I click on Slack it takes me to more notification settings for Slack. On that screen I have Show notification banners set to On and Show notifications in action center set to Off.

I do see the toast-style banners pop up when I get a Slack message. But I also see those same notifications in the action center, which makes me wonder if I'm misunderstanding the setting.

Is there a way to have the toast banners and not have the notifications collect like so much sediment in the action center?

jinglesthula
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Nope, there is no way of eating your cake and keeping it too: it's an all or nothing setting in Windows 10.

What I did was turning it off entirely on Windows 10:

  • I still see the red or blue ball on the slack icon itself and can hear the slack notification sound
  • My phone still pings me and shows the message if I don't read it within a minute or so.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Fabby
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Slack periodically continues to stop display notifications on my MacOS (latest and previous) and Windows (10). Of course I tried all options/workaround. Focus / Do not disturn - Disabled. Notificaitons - enabled. Etc!

To fix this:

  1. go to Slack Settings,
  2. Change Notification type to another, Then immediately revert it back (for example: use native SLACK)
  3. Click on "Show an example"
  4. and save/close the settings.

Now notification works again until next app grab the focus or something broke in the Slack again.

Another option that may work (or not ):

  1. Type in the any message box to open the Slack dev tools (for example: here):

    /slackdevtools

  2. This will open in a new Slack (chromium!) window with bunch of console logs being printed. In the "Console" input box at the very bottom designated by the > symbol, copy and paste the code at the bottom of this post and hit Enter.

    notificationFailoverEnabled:false

  3. Refresh Slack windows: cmd+R or ctrl+r

PS Notifications works perfect on my Ubuntu 20.04 .

Vova VLM
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