OK, how do I stop this stupid thing from appearing in front of me every time I log in? Grazzie, gracias, danke and thank you, in advance.
On 08/02/2021 01.04, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
OK, how do I stop this stupid thing from appearing in front of me every time I log in?
Grazzie, gracias, danke and thank you, in advance.
I have no idea what you are talking about. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)
* Darryl Gregorash <raven@accesscomm.ca> [01-01-70 12:34]:
OK, how do I stop this stupid thing from appearing in front of me every time I log in?
Grazzie, gracias, danke and thank you, in advance.
zypper -v rm discover note: as I am currently under censorship, I have cc'd you as many of my posts experience "extended" wait time for *approval*, sometimes >26 hours. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode
In data lunedì 8 febbraio 2021 05:05:17 CET, Patrick Shanahan ha scritto:
* Darryl Gregorash <raven@accesscomm.ca> [01-01-70 12:34]:
OK, how do I stop this stupid thing from appearing in front of me every time I log in?
Grazzie, gracias, danke and thank you, in advance.
zypper -v rm discover
note: as I am currently under censorship, I have cc'd you as many of my posts experience "extended" wait time for *approval*, sometimes >26 hours.
This might be a good, however, depending on the usecase, also an ill advise. Discover is very useful, albeit not when you have to update software from the repos. There I would prefer zypper and if I wish the comfort of a GUI, I would use YAST. That said, whenever a user installs a lot of eye candy, icons and apps from kdestore, discover allows to selectively only update the icons and apps from the store. I haven't currently found such a function in zypper or yast. So if Darryl uses a lot of apps and iconsets (which often get updates for completeness and bug fixes), then I would rather advise him to refrain from uninstalling potentially useful software. Unfortunately he did not tell us what he is doing when this happens, so all here is a bit useless, unless he will come back and tell us the exact events that are disturbing him.
On 2021-02-09 3:24 p.m., Stakanov wrote:
So if Darryl uses a lot of apps and iconsets (which often get updates for completeness and bug fixes), then I would rather advise him to refrain from uninstalling potentially useful software.
Unfortunately he did not tell us what he is doing when this happens, so all here is a bit useless, unless he will come back and tell us the exact events that are disturbing him.
Sorry for the absence, but other priorities got in the way. I just logged out and back in. Before logging out, I made sure (htop) that Discover was not running. It did not appear on login. I had made on change in the Discover settings, which may or may not have been relevant. In your other post, you forgot to take account of the phases of the moon. Here are the facts: I upgraded to Leap 15.2 (fresh install onto a new drive) in Nov. 2019. YaST shows that Discover was installed on my system in Jul. 2020. There is only one version of it in the main repository, dated May 2020. Nothing depends on it, and nothing requires it. I certainly did not select it to be installed, so I have no idea how or why it was installed on my system. No, I have never run it intentionally. It has never to my knowledge been running on the system when I have logged out. It is not in my autostart folder. I only first noticed it a week or so ago, when it appeared out of the blue when I logged back in following a kernel update and reboot. Since then, it kept starting up on login each time, until now, the first time I've had a chance to check since changing the program's settings. Anyway, it seems that it's not going to be starting up now whenever I log in, so at least for now, case closed.
In data mercoledì 10 febbraio 2021 02:52:01 CET, Darryl Gregorash ha scritto:
Nothing depends on it, and nothing requires it.
but it may be "recommends". Normally, if you do not change settings and install something via yast (especially in plasma) you will install AFAIR with the "recommends" parameter ...which recommends quite a lot ;-) If you do not wish this, you can deactivate it in the menu of yast and if using zypper the command is --no-recommends Do not install recommended packages, but only required ones. The default behavior is determined by [zypp.conf:solver.onlyRequires]. You can find a nice roundup of zypper commands in: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Zypper_manual So the next time you are not running into the issue. Moon-phases: right, but I did refrain on purpose. From time to time when full moon hits things happen that are really awful ... but still are not influenced by opensuse. Hence I omitted :-) In case you need it in the neighborhood: silver bullets may help.
In data mercoledì 10 febbraio 2021 14:35:20 CET, Stakanov ha scritto:
In data mercoledì 10 febbraio 2021 02:52:01 CET, Darryl Gregorash ha scritto
I forgot to mention: during installation you have preselected "patterns". Now if what is contained in a "pattern" is updated, because e.g. a new component of plasma becomes available, it may be included in the selection when a system update or a pattern update takes place. So you may have a look if "discover" is part of e.d. "KDE Plasma" pattern. If you are particularly interested to hold the package outside of your system but wish to maintain the pattern, you can "embargo"/block the package in yast.
In data lunedì 8 febbraio 2021 01:04:43 CET, Darryl Gregorash ha scritto:
OK, how do I stop this stupid thing from appearing in front of me every time I log in?
Grazzie, gracias, danke and thank you, in advance.
Discover is a KDE Program to install software. If it pop up, this means 2 things. First: you did open it to try it out, then you did either iconize it, or leave it in the tray. Second: you have put the setting in KDE "restore the last session". If the first point is untrue, maybe your session of KDE Plasma does not terminate normally / gracefully and thus, the crashed status is restored at restart. Do the following. When the discover window pops up close it. Check that in "startup folder" you do not have an entry for discover. Then put the KDE session setting at startup to "start a new session every time". Close down the KDE session with "close session". Restart the KDE session. You should now NOT be presented any more with the program. Now you can restore the KDE session in settings if you like. Note that in some icon sets, the icon for discover is almost identical with the dolphin one. If you happen to have the discover session in the tray aside the dolphin one, either you change icon set not to mistake them or you take out the icon of discover. All this has been advised by reading (with the help of an "Augur" of the Roman empire) the Future and the will of the Gods, by sectioning a liver of a chicken casually passing by (which we know, wanted to cross the road anyway, so no harm). In case the advises should NOT be pertinent for your problem, it could be a good idea to give a more precise and intellectually understandable description of your problem the next time. Precise questions get, at time, precise answers. God luck.
On 08/02/2021 09.57, Stakanov wrote:
In data lunedì 8 febbraio 2021 01:04:43 CET, Darryl Gregorash ha scritto:
OK, how do I stop this stupid thing from appearing in front of me every time I log in?
Grazzie, gracias, danke and thank you, in advance.
Discover is a KDE Program to install software.
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All this has been advised by reading (with the help of an "Augur" of the Roman empire) the Future and the will of the Gods, by sectioning a liver of a chicken casually passing by (which we know, wanted to cross the road anyway, so no harm). In case the advises should NOT be pertinent for your problem, it could be a good idea to give a more precise and intellectually understandable description of your problem the next time. Precise questions get, at time, precise answers.
:-D Right. My Xtall ball cracked when I asked it. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)
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