The Wednesday 2005-04-27 Luca and I were talking:
It all seemed to work fine yesterday evening after the system update, but today the problem returned: I too have the tiny suseplugger window in the upper left corner, completely white (no pci-card image inside). If I log in and out of gnome maybe next time it does not hang, but it will stay in the desktop. Damn, I don't understand why this happens with such randomness.
I just went to the gnome control center, current session properties, and removed both susepluger and susewatcher; I don't know what will happen when I log in again. [...] Dunno... it started, then suddenly died before session restore was complete. There are strange things in gnome... it even calls kdesu to run Yast!
Found something. I created a new user, then tested gnome there. There were icons (applets) in the panel for suseplugger and susewatcher. Then I noticed another unknown applet, one named "Notification Area 2.10.0 (copyright Red Hat)". Then I went back to my normal user, added that panel, and sure enough, the suseplugger and susewatcher promptly went inside. I have been able to remove them for ever - for ever being till the next login. They resurrect and appear again :-/ When I remove them, they both ask if I want to restart them next time. Of course, I say "NO!". I could be talking chinese, they both start again nect time. I renamed both apps to a suitable name... But I still would like to know how to dissable applications that ask if the user (not root!) wants to install new hardware that it has discovered. Or if he want's to find and apply patches. :-/ SuSE should add a list in Yast of what users should receive such notifications. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson