Prevent Autostart of Discover? [Solved]

[AVLinux]

I found a solution. Go to /etc/xdg/autostart and delete the org.kde.discover.notifier.desktop file. Now Updates doesn't show up in my hidden icons area.

Maybe have a look at the [Solution] in post #2, as we won't want to change system files.
Or the alternative solution provided by richb in post #11 to adjust systray settings, which would also stop it to run at login.

I'll admit I don't like to run commands I'm not familiar with but after running the command in post #2,
I see that it copies the desktop file to my home folder and modifies it to add the hidden value which does hide the Updates icon.

Yes exactly!

A bit of confusion was caused by me because in my case the command didn't take for a couple of cold boots..

[dolphin_oracle]

Maybe have a look at the [Solution] in post #2, as we won't want to change system files.
Or the alternative solution provided by richb in post #11 to adjust systray settings, which would also stop it to run at login.

I'll admit I don't like to run commands I'm not familiar with but after running the command in post #2,
I see that it copies the desktop file to my home folder and modifies it to add the hidden value which does hide the Updates icon.

Yes exactly!

A bit of confusion was caused by me because in my case the command didn't take for a couple of cold boots..

depending on settings, KDE will try to restart services that were running at logout. its kind of annoying.

[sunrat]

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...

My current setup is Bookworm updated from Bullseye. I just checked my notes and one of the first commands after installing was

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apt purge plasma-discover*

No consequences.
I did however install the minimal kde-plasma-desktop metapackage rather than any -standard or -full package, and highly recommend that. plasma-discover is a recommended package of plasma-desktop (which is a dependency of kde-plasma-desktop), not a hard dependency.
I prefer to add extra things as I need them rather than chase and remove those things I don't need.

[AVLinux]

@sunrat

Oh no! You've caught me looking at KDE!

And as usual you were right...:

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The following packages will be REMOVED:
  discover discover-data libdiscover2 plasma-discover plasma-discover-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
After this operation, 9,668 kB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 492234 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing discover (2.1.2-10) ...
Removing libdiscover2 (2.1.2-10) ...
Removing discover-data (2.2013.01.13) ...
Removing plasma-discover (5.27.5-2) ...
Removing plasma-discover-common (5.27.5-2) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.36-9+deb12u7) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1) ...

No animals or humans were injured in the removal of this Package!

@dolphin_oracle

Since we have the excellent MXPI in MX should the "Popular Apps" install of KDE Desktop Standard not include Discover? Or would that involve messing with Debian's metapackages too much?

[dolphin_oracle]

no it should include plasma-discover, since it ships with our KDE spin. and it does.

[sunrat]

@sunrat
Oh no! You've caught me looking at KDE!

I figured I had piqued your interest in that recent post on LM.

no it should include plasma-discover, since it ships with our KDE spin. and it does.

Yes, I think a lot of people like a pretty package manager. Personally I don't care for GUI package managers at all.