# Preferences - Notification

The following image displays the notification preferences dialog:

The Notification preferences dialog

# PopUp

The PopUp will show the currently playing song along the album art and the next song in the playing queue.

## The following options are available:

## Show on song change

Enable this option if you want to get the PopUp everytime the song changes.

## Timeout

How long shall the PopUp be shown

## Position

Where shall the PopUp be placed

It is possible to hide the album art in the PopUp by enabling "Hide album art" in the "Interface->Advanced Settings" preferences window.

# Notification Area Icon

The notification area icon gives you quick access to important features of GMPC, even if the main interface is hidden.

## The icon allows you to:

Change the volume through vertical mouse scrolling on the icon

Choose the previous / next track through horizontal mouse scrolling on the icon

## The icons's menu offers the following options:

Show / hide the main interface

Control playback (Play, Stop, Next track, Previous track)

Quit GMPC

Ubuntu's new interface "Unity" uses a different approach to provide notification area icons and GMPC will natively integrate with it if the support is compiled in. When you are not using Unity, you will automatically get a fallback icon. However, if you experience problems like missing icons in the context menu or if you can't change the volume by scrolling on the icon, you can switch back to the legacy tray icon through the respective option in the "Preferences"->"Interface"->"Advanced Settings" window.

# Inline messages

Inline messages are shown within GMPC's main interface and provide a non intrusive way for GMPC to inform you about certain events.

## The following severity settings are available:

## information and up

Gives you the most feedback, including e.g. when connected/disconnected from server

## warning and up

Non-serious problems will be reported

## error

A plugin failed to load? With this setting you will get those kind of information

## none

You will never get any messages

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