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They still write in a 'I'll put this here and they respond when they can, it's at least someone else's problem' manner. Slack won't play the sound effects, but the badge will be there, red and proud with a big number on, and you'll see it at every cmd-tab. (I wonder how common OCD is among programmers.)

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> the badge will be there, red and proud with a big number on, and you'll see it at every cmd-tab

On KDE, I'd use the "Filters" setting for either the Task Switcher (Alt+Tab thing) or the Task Manager (taskbar), or both. They can show or ignore windows from other virtual desktops, screens, or minimized ones. [Or "activities", but I've never used that feature, and I'm not sure what it's for.]

I usually keep Skype on my second screen, covered with other work, and have the task switcher set to only scroll through not-minimized things on the current screen.

Edit: So "Activities" are something like super-virtual desktops, and appear to be exactly for this purpose, to separate different tasks.

Can't you mute channels to stop even unread counts from showing up? Like the last part of this article: https://lauraroeder.com/how-to-customize-slack-so-it-stops-m...

That's why I had a custom script which always set the counter to zero for HipChat. The numbers are very annoying. We had a Lunch room where people discussed what to get for lunch, and it had a counter near it's name. Also reseted the tab counter.

Run Slack in a VM and you can decide on when you want to see it.

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