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[SwampRabbit]

@bobbee , you may not be changing something intentionally, but you have changed/added something which is causing this.
As stated already, there is nothing that comes stock in MX that does this. I can't be 100%, but I am 99.9% sure that nothing in/from the MX repos is causing this.

Looking at that output you gave earlier leads down a long and dark rabbit hole (pun intended), which I'm not going to go all the way down because its a waste to do without seeing everything on your system.
But...

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# macro y set browser " spawndl "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium
# The link bellow is probably the skiddiest that Luke has ever written
macro c set browser " copy (){ echo $1 | xclip ; } ; copy "; open-in-browser ; set browser chromium

This led me here ... AAAA.//git.kocotian.pl/dotfiles/commit/03b06725a117b22f08083ca717040284960aa6bd.htmlAAAA. which includes patches for a .newsboat/config
Which led me to a page that FireFox says is a risk and VirusTotal detects as "phishing" and "suspicious" so I won't post it at all, but digging more led me here ... AAAA.//github.com/LukeSmithxyz/LARBS.AAAA., which has a bunch of rando dot files, scripts, etc, etc.

That AAAA.://git.kocotian.pl/AAAA. is a repo with what looks like a ton of random rehashes, forks, and stuffs of applications, scripts and config files.

NOTICE how I didn't make those URLS actual links? Thats because I don't recommend going to them.
The owners of those sites, applications, scripts, etc may not be doing anything nefarious intentionally, but you never know, and for sure they don't know if someone is using their stuff in a bad way.

A long story short, something you did at some point in time is causing this. It is probably something that came from an untrusted source. By untrusted I mean its not vetted/checked and obviously has caused unintended things to happen to your computer.

Edit: Also I forgot to bring up the Dissenter extension, if I had to put my money on anything doing this its that. I'm not going to discuss any thing about Dissenter, because we have forum rules, and I have rules as a human being keeping me from not wasting my time to talk about such things.

I would reinstall from scratch, make sure you at least clear the partition table from the drive using GParted from the live USB before running the MX Installer. Then don't mess with any stuffs from whereever you were getting stuff and don't reinstall Dissenter.

[JmaCWQ]

...although the corners are sqaured off, whereas the corners are rounded off on the ones on my standard MX XFCE desktop...

That seems to vary, well it does on MX 18.3 anyway, sometimes it will have rounded corners and other times it will have squared off corners.
I'm not sure what triggers the different appearance.

[bobbee]

@bobbee please edit your post #26 and put the config info in code tags so it's readable.

done

I don't see Chromium Dissenter anywhere in the tabs in MX Package Installer."

Chromium is in the "Popular packages in the package manager.

I got Dissenter from the Dissenter browser website. And I've had the same version for a couple years with no updates, the reason I stopped using it is because youtube changed their adds so that dissenter didn't block them very well.

Where did you get it? Also, those games and other apps you mentioned, what were they, where did they come from, how did you install and remove them?

I got them in the stable repo and I uninstalled them the same way one was btanks and one was atanks and the other two I don't remember, but I'll try to figure it out and post them.

Oh, one is warzone 2100, I still have it installed. Have been playing it some.

My money is on your RSS app but without being able to read that great big wall of plain text (please, please read the forum rules) I have no idea if there's something there that's set up to get a Reddit RSS feed.

And NewsBoat is pretty simple.

It loads the rss feeds from a urls file which is made using a plain text editor.
Most of the URLS are for youtube and bitchute videos, though I do have some from a couple other sites. Corbetreport.com, and NaturalNews.com and infowars.com, I think that is about it.
And the way that it notifies of unread rss is the text changes color.

Anyway I shut it down now and closed the terminal, will see what that does.

[bobbee]

but you have changed/added something which is causing this.

I have done something, I think that is pretty obvious by now.

Looking at that output you gave earlier leads down a long and dark rabbit hole (pun intended), which I'm not going to go all the way down because its a waste to do without seeing everything on your system.

how very mysterious.

On the websites, The luke Smith one is a guy who has a youtube channel and he sometimes posts linux tutorials mostly for linux terminal commands vim, and such. And he has several websites where he posts journals and code from his tutorials.

And I know that it is shocking but he also has a github where he posts code for all the world to read. Which I also did not download. Well, not so much code as bash scripts.

I did watch his video where he talks about how he set up newsboat for himself. No I did not download or use his script. I edited mine manually. And I learned how to do so from the NewsBoat website. which NewsBoat is in the stable repostitory, an that is how I installed it from the stable repository.

The other websites that you mention, I don't know. The only thing that I downloaded was in the repository, and the configs I edited them myself.

As far as the code, The lines beginning with a # are commented out.
And the set browser command and then another command and set browser again. The reason for that is that Newsboat is a News Reader, not a video streamer and it needs a work around to steam video or audio. Which the work around is to set the program to open to MPV video player and it passes the web url to that. Then after the video is finished , it sets it back to open the browser.

The code is not nefarious and the tutorial says exactly what it does.

NOTICE how I didn't make those URLS actual links? Thats because I don't recommend going to them.
The owners of those sites, applications, scripts, etc may not be doing anything nefarious intentionally, but you never know, and for sure they don't know if someone is using their stuff in a bad way.

Yes, while I'm sure that I did something, aside from dissenter which I have had installed for years, and is basically an offshoot of brave browser which is from chrome, I have not downloaded anything from any other site. Only from the repository. In installs past, I had, for a version of vim not in the repo or some such thing, but I haven't needed to for this install.

Which, btw, the guys have done a great job expanding the repository popular packages.

A long story short, something you did at some point in time is causing this. It is probably something that came from an untrusted source. By untrusted I mean its not vetted/checked and obviously has caused unintended things to happen to your computer.

Again, yes, yes, I probably installed something that is causing this. But I disagree on the entrusted sites. I haven't.. Triple swear, cross my pinky fingers

Edit: Also I forgot to bring up the Dissenter extension, if I had to put my money on anything doing this its that. I'm not going to discuss any thing about Dissenter, because we have forum rules, and I have rules as a human being keeping me from not wasting my time to talk about such things.

[I don't know why the animosity toward Dissenter.
But I like the creator, Andrew Torba, who for sure would not link me to redit or google or face book.

Besides which, as I have said, I have run the very same version for years with no issue. Even as far back as when Io was running MX 15.

The problem is recent.

But I might just end up doing a reinstall.

[asqwerth]

There are sites where, if you visit them, display a dropdown/pop-up message at the top asking if you would like to receive notifications from that page. If you'd accidentally answered yes instead of no, that setting will be stored somewhere in your browser settings and you would regularly get pop-ups with news from that page.

[ADDED] as an example, go visit www.cnet.com

[JayM]

Maybe clearing all browser caches and deleting all cookies would fix this then?

[agnivo007]

The bluish weird notification theme? Have you tried changing the notify theme from xfce notification settings and test with "preview" button?

Can you post:
apt list | grep dunst
apt list | grep xfce4-notifyd

[SwampRabbit]

@bobbee trust who you want to trust, don't matter to me, but MX isn't the one who created your pop up issue its one of the many things that came from people you trust.

[bobbee]

There are sites where, if you visit them, display a dropdown/pop-up message at the top asking if you would like to receive notifications from that page.

A great reminder to always answer no, facebook is terrible for that. I have a browser where it deletes all cookies and history every time I close it and facebook asks and asks and asks.

[bobbee]

Maybe clearing all browser caches and deleting all cookies would fix this then?

This is a great idea, I have newsboat shut down right now, so far so good.

Maybe it is newsboat.

I think clearing browser cookies an history is next on the list.