How To Change the Banner Notification Timeout in OS X

How To Change the Notification Banner Timeout in OS X. How To Adjust the Banner Notification Center Time Before it Scrolls Off the Screen.

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In this episode, How To Change the Banner Notification Timeout in OS X.

Straight to the demo.

Soooooo, Let’s Get Started.

The default duration before a Notification Banner scrolls off the screen, is 5 Seconds.

If you find that the banner scrolls off the screen too quickly, you can increase the default duration very easily.

Simply, open Terminal and enter the following two one line commands shown:

defaults write com.apple.notificationcenterui bannerTime #SECONDS

I’ll just enter 18, for the number of SECONDS before the banner scrolls off the screen.

Followed by the following command to relaunch Notification Center:

killall NotificationCenter

I’ll just time lapse the 18 seconds.

To restore to default, simply enter the same commands entered earlier, replacing write with delete and number of second, leave blank as shown:

defaults delete com.apple.notificationcenterui bannerTime

Followed by the same command to relaunch Notification Center:

killall NotificationCenter

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