LKBEN11139: How to disable the automatic popup of the Update-manager.

Symptom

You want to disable the automatic popup of the Update-manager.

Cause

You want to disable the automatic popup of the Update-manager.

Solution

The automatic popup of the Update-manager has the advantage that you never miss an important/critical update. But if you're working or watching a film this can be quite annoying. There are two options to configure the Update-manager that way that only an icon in the pannel shows up.

First option:
- Run the Gnome config editor (Alt + F2 > gconf-editor)
- choose apps > update-notifier
- look for the Option "auto_launch" and deactivate it.

Second option:
- open the console
- type "gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false"
- press enter

To reverse the modification either active the "auto_launch" option in the config editor or use the console command but use "true" instead of "false".
 

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Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux in different European countries and different European languages. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform where he is one of the most important contributors and the main developer.

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