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Q I’m running Mint 20.1 Ulyssa Cinnamon. I use the built-in network management tools to connect to a VPN running OpenVPN. I used to get a notification on the top right-hand corner confirming a successful connection when I started it, but I accidentally hit the “Don’t show this again” button one day. Despite searching I cannot find out how to reverse this. It was very useful.
Ian Gibbs
A It’s not obvious, but you need to edit the dconf database that is used to store Gnome settings. You can do this from the command line with the gsettings tool. Run one or more of these commands as your normal user, not with sudo: $ gsettings set org.gnome.nm-applet disable-vpn-notifications “false” $ gsettings set org.gnome.nm-applet disable-connected-notifications “false” $ gsettings set org.gnome.nm-applet disable-disconnected-notifications “false”
The first one controls the VPN notifications you’re asking about, the other two handle the general notifications when you connect to a network. Note that these are settings to disable notifications, so you set them to false to turn the notifications back on. You can use the corresponding get commands to see the settings in force.
If you prefer a GUI approach, first install (Mint doesn’t include it by default) then run it and go to org>gnome> nm-applet and click the various settings to change them.
