# Toggle MacOS X Notification Center on or off

This gist is to remind me (and anyone else who it helps) how to quickly disable and re-enable Notification Center.

## Set Up Bash Aliases

#### Installation

1. Open your terminal (<⌘ + ␣ (spacebar)>, then type "terminal", then press <↩ (enter)>).

2. Paste and run the following command:

```sh
echo >> ~/.profile && echo >> ~/.profile && echo '# Disable/enable notification center' >> ~/.profile && echo 'alias disableNotificationCenter="launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist && killall NotificationCenter"' >> ~/.profile && echo 'alias enableNotificationCenter="launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist && open /System/Library/CoreServices/NotificationCenter.app/"' >> ~/.profile && source ~/.profile
```

#### Usage

**To disable notification center:**
```sh
disableNotificationCenter
```

**To re-enable notification center:**
```sh
enableNotificationCenter
```




## How it works / background


#### Goal
Disable MacOS X's Notification Center entirely.  But make it easy to turn it back on and disable again as needed.

#### Reasoning
I'm tired of seeing notifications that I can't dismiss, and there's no easy way to do this selectively (e.g. MacOS notifications always come through)

#### How this disables __Notification Center__

```sh
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
killall NotificationCenter

```

#### How this re-enables __Notification Center__

```sh 
launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
open /System/Library/CoreServices/NotificationCenter.app/

```

## Bibliography
This approach is a command-line-only version of the solution proposed in [a great article](http://osxdaily.com/2012/08/06/disable-notification-center-remove-menu-bar-icon-os-x/) on osxdaily.com.