Notification Banner Woes

[Xer]

Ever since Lollipop (I think), more and more apps have been using these banners that pop up on the top of the screen. I for one do not like these at all! They take up space often times when I'm in the middle of doing something and end up accidentally opening whatever the notification was. It wouldn't be so bad if the only lasted for a second or two, but they stay up there for at least ten seconds! (I've never actually counted). I've looked in the settings, and it seems the only way to prevent them is to turn off notifications for the app entirely, which isn't very helpful. Is there some other way, or some other app that can change this? I much prefer Ed the old way of notifications just showing up in the notification tray...

[Muz]

You can change it to be an icon only, and to see the banner you must drag down as usual to see 'em.

[iamdarkyoshi]

the head up notifications? There should be an option to disable it

[Xer]

Added example

[iamdarkyoshi]

Is this an option?

I am running custom software so I am not sure if its an option on your phone

[Xer]

There doesn't appear to be, it's probably with mentioning that I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 4, running the official firmware

[vanished]

I can set a timeout so it's not 10 seconds, and even blacklist certain apps, but maybe that's just cyanogen...

[Xer]

Must be, I don't seem to have any options other than turning off notifications for apps completely, which isn't what I want

[exercutor5]

There doesn't appear to be, it's probably with mentioning that I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 4, running the official firmware

 

Stock firmwares don't have the option to disable heads up notifications. Actually not just stock, but any of those stock-based ones too. Only AOSP-based ROMs have the option to turn it off or set the duration to show.

[Xer]

Well, that is really unfortunate!