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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="topic" id="howto_notifications">
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<info>
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<link type="guide" xref="index#reviewing"/>
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<link type="next" xref="howto_bookmarks" />
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<title type="sort">5. Notifications</title>
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<desc>Reading previously-received messages</desc>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>Joanmarie Diggs</name>
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<email>joanied@gnome.org</email>
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</credit>
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<license>
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<p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
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</license>
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</info>
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<title>Notifications</title>
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<p>
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The GNOME Desktop includes a "notification area" which can be used by
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applications to present information to the user. Examples of notifications
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include incoming chat messages, the details associated with the song your
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media player is starting to play, and warnings that your battery level is
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getting low.
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</p>
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<p>
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Because notifications are intended to present information to users without
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interrupting what the user is doing, these messages tend to appear and
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disappear relatively quickly. They are also not focusable. While
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<app>Orca</app> will present these messages to you as they come in, it is
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far too easy to interrupt <app>Orca</app>'s announcement accidentally by
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continuing to type or to change focus. For this reason, <app>Orca</app> has
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three commands which you can use to access previously-displayed notification
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messages:
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</p>
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<list>
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<item>
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<p>Present the last (most recent) notification message</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>Present the previous notification message</p>
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</item>
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<item>
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<p>Present list of all notification messages</p>
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</item>
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</list>
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<p>
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The first two commands are designed mainly for quick access to a message
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you just received. The last command is the most powerful as it stores your
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notification message history.
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</p>
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<p>
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When you enter the list of notification messages, you will be told the size
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of the list and prompted with the following choices:
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</p>
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<list>
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<item><p>Press H for help.</p></item>
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<item><p>Use Up, Down, Home or End to navigate in the list.</p></item>
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<item><p>Press Escape to exit.</p></item>
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<item><p>Press Space to repeat the last message read.</p></item>
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<item><p>Press one digit to read a specific message.</p></item>
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</list>
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<p>
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Note that the most recently-received message is at the top of the list.
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</p>
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<p>
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Each of <app>Orca</app>'s notification review commands is unbound by
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default. You can bind any or all of them to the shortcut or shortcuts
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you choose. How to do so is described in the
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<link xref="howto_key_bindings">Introduction to Key Bindings</link>.
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</p>
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</page>
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