Balloon notification keeps popping up and is driving me nuts

[Ian L.]

Originally Posted by crobin

Anyone find a workaround that works with the latest Cam Hub and DisplayLink? Pops up mid-presentation and its super-frustrating.

Something worth trying is disabling the menu bar icon to see if this helps at all. I moved from my MacBook Pro 2020 (Intel) to a MacBook Air (M4) and I never had the issue on my MBP but have experienced the same issue persistently with my MBA. I've disabled the Displaylink menu bar icon so it doesn't show and it seems to give me good results. Just be sure you know how to reactivate it in case you accidentally turn off screen sharing on a monitor as you'll need the menu bar icon for control access to turn the sharing back on for that screen. Below are the commands, just after you process the command in your terminal cli you'll need to reboot so the app restarts and honors the new command setting.

You can hide the icon in menu bar by executing the following command in terminal: 

defaults write com.displaylink.DisplayLinkUserAgent ShowMenuBarIcon 0


To show the icon in menu bar please execute the following command in terminal:

defaults write com.displaylink.DisplayLinkUserAgent ShowMenuBarIcon 1