Customize libnotify in Ubuntu
Ubuntu’s newest 9.04 does a great job in using libnotify engine for many of the applications. With this support, application specific notifications appear in a pop-up style notification on the corner of the screen. But the problem is, the color theme for these notifications are deafulted to ubuntu’s color theme and doesn’t match with your modded desktop. If you are also a mod junkie like me, you can simply do this edit to match the libnotify pop-ups with your curent GTK theme: Open the Configuration editor via running gconf-editor at the Run Dialog (Alt-F2), or the terminal. Navigate to apps > notification-daemon. Change the ‘theme’ option to ‘normal’ (instead of ‘ubuntu’). Now they will have a cooler theme that matches most themes.
If you want to add transparency to it, go to ‘CompizConfig Settings Manager’, select the ‘Opacity, Brightness, and Saturation Adjustments’ option, then under the ‘Opacity’ tab, add a new Window type, with the parameter: Notification-daemon. Choose your required level of transparency, and wala!
