Prevent Autostart of Discover? [Solved]

[AVLinux]

Hi,

On test bench #7 I have KDE installed alongside Enlightenment in AV Linux 23.2. I installed KDE through MXPI Popular Apps and everything is working well so far... a huge sombrero off to the MX KDE developers! I'm completely new to Plasma after swearing I would never look at KDE again after an experiment with early KDE4 hosed my system and wasted an entire (wife and kid-free) weekend many years ago... I've noticed KDE gives some duplicate Apps (ie KWrite and Kate) and I also have Discover and MXPI both handling updates in the systray and I really only want/need MXPI to use on both the KDE and Enlightenment sides but I don't see in the "Background Services" settings any way to disable Discover from autostart.. I haven't tried uninstalling Discover but I'd guess it's going to want to rip out the plasma-desktop-standard metapackage if I do...

Can Discover be disabled from startup or is it baked into the cake?

[fehlix]

Hi,

On test bench #7 I have KDE installed alongside Enlightenment in AV Linux 23.2. I installed KDE through MXPI Popular Apps and everything is working well so far... a huge sombrero off to the MX KDE developers! I'm completely new to Plasma after swearing I would never look at KDE again after an experiment with early KDE4 hosed my system and wasted an entire (wife and kid-free) weekend many years ago... I've noticed KDE gives some duplicate Apps (ie KWrite and Kate) and I also have Discover and MXPI both handling updates in the systray and I really only want/need MXPI to use on both the KDE and Enlightenment sides but I don't see in the "Background Services" settings any way to disable Discover from autostart.. I haven't tried uninstalling Discover but I'd guess it's going to want to rip out the plasma-desktop-standard metapackage if I do...

Can Discover be disabled from startup or is it baked into the cake?

Maybe of help:

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sed '$aHidden=true' /etc/xdg/autostart/org.kde.discover.notifier.desktop | tee ~/.config/autostart/org.kde.discover.notifier.desktop
 

which is : add a line "Hidden=true", to make it not start and place into users autostart directory.

[AVLinux]

Thanks @fehlix

I did run the command and the launcher was edited and copied to my User autostart folder. On the next cold boot Discover still starts in the system tray. What have I missed?

[fehlix]

Thanks @fehlix

I did run the command and the launcher was edited and copied to my User autostart folder. On the next cold boot Discover still starts in the system tray. What have I missed?

Maybe reduce to this snipplet, but keep the desktop file name
cat ~/.config/autostart/org.kde.discover.notifier.desktop

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=Discover
Exec=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/DiscoverNotifier
Icon=system-software-update
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
OnlyShowIn=KDE
Hidden=true

I'v not tested on installed, but on LiveBoot, and no procces is showing discover, so no autostart no icon in systray.

[AVLinux]

Actually this is one of the lines in the original launcher:

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X-KDE-autostart-phase=1

I don't know much about KDE Plasma but this looks like it would override other settings. It appears that disabling Discover is not really what Plasma 'wants' you to do in any standard graphical way. I'm not sure if I want to achieve this with brute force, I was assuming I had just missed some obvious setting since I'm so new to Plasma..

*EDIT - The original solution seems to be working now...? For some reason I had to cold boot twice, I've noticed this with other settings that KDE Plasma often takes a few restarts to fully reflect changes, must be a quirk of this version?

[dolphin_oracle]

Hidden=true did it for me.

[fehlix]

Actually this is one of the lines in the original launcher:

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X-KDE-autostart-phase=1

I don't know much about KDE Plasma but this looks like it would override other settings. It appears that disabling Discover is not really what Plasma 'wants' you to do in any standard graphical way. I'm not sure if I want to achieve this with brute force, I was assuming I had just missed some obvious setting since I'm so new to Plasma..

You spotted rightly, there is no obviuos way to disable discover autostart.
If they would have NoDisplay line removed or set to false, you would
find an entry within autostart. But you can only remove the entry, and with removed entry
it will no longer show to allow to enabled again. So they may have missed
to implement to toggle on/off an autostart entry.
And the system wide setting takes over to autostart.
Now you can either do the skel-way or commandline way,
or enhance Kde-Plasma by writing an autostart-toggle GUI for discover.
How sounds that?

[richb]

This may not be exactly what you want but as I indicated in another topic:
viewtopic.php?p=786619#p786619

You May still get a notification but the Discover icon will not show in System tray. MXPI will show an update is available and can be used to install it (them).
This way I can just ignore Discover.

[siamhie]

This may not be exactly what you want but as I indicated in another topic:
viewtopic.php?p=786619#p786619

You May still get a notification but the Discover icon will not show in System tray. MXPI will show an update is available and can be used to install it (them).
This way I can just ignore Discover.

Link gives me an error. "You are not authorised to read this forum."

[AVLinux]

@richb

Yes, I got the same error as @siamhie

Another wrinkle, in further Google adventures I also discovered that Plasma allows you to edit the Systray Entries, I'm not sure if this is an effective solution or not but it is another method of controlling what appears in the Systray:

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