{"id":99,"date":"2009-05-15T21:41:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T01:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/?p=99"},"modified":"2011-02-13T17:11:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T22:11:15","slug":"disable-annoying-update-manager-behaviour-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/2009\/05\/15\/disable-annoying-update-manager-behaviour-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable annoying update manager behaviour in Ubuntu 9.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04, the update manager will consistently try to pester you with upgrades, even if you select to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span><\/em> check for updates to Ubuntu. This behaviour <a href=\"http:\/\/tuxxie.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/annoying-update-manager-in-ubuntu-904.html\">annoys users<\/a> because it attempts to force people to upgrade packages when they might be doing something important on the computer and also always comes up when you least expect it. You can revert this behaviour to the previous way of showing a notification in the system tray:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_100\" style=\"width: 603px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/update-manager.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100\" title=\"The Ubuntu Update Manager\" src=\"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/update-manager.png\" alt=\"The Ubuntu Update Manager\" width=\"593\" height=\"709\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ubuntu Update Manager<\/p><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>Open a terminal.<\/li>\n<li>Enter &#8220;<strong>gconftool -s &#8211;type bool \/apps\/update-notifier\/auto_launch false<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/li>\n<li>Type &#8220;<strong>exit<\/strong>&#8221; to exit the terminal.<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04, the update manager will consistently try to pester you with upgrades, even if you select to not check for updates to Ubuntu. This behaviour annoys users because it attempts to force people to upgrade packages when they might be doing something important on the computer and also always comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[317,862,492,493,407,28,489],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}