[Ubuntu-US-CA] Pre 9.04 package notifications & Ayatana

[Grant Bowman]

Hello all,

I found some information today after some of the Q&A at the Felton LUG
meeting on Saturday.  Using gconf-editor I was able to edit the values
in /apps/update-notifier to change the values for the auto_launch and
the number of days before checking for new packages.  The
regular_auto_launch_interval (in days) used to be 1 but the new
default is 7 days, a whole week.  A command line to change the boolean
auto_launch value was given in a blog entry that I linked to below.

          gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false

from http://reformedmusings.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/recovering-daily-update-notifications-in-ubuntu-904-jaunty/

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I just heard (from Robert Wall) that there is a package called
"gnome-stracciatella-session" that allows a more purely Gnome
experience without the notifications, selectable from the gdm login
screen.  It did not install by default on my machine.  If you install
it, let us know how it goes.  The specification is at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Jaunty/StracciatellaSession

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The https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD page has some great information
about Ayatana.  One useful item is the log file it generates for those
notifications you missed. $HOME/.cache/notify-osd.log   There are
several blogs that also give this command for how to disable Ayatana
altogether, renaming a single file to add .disabled to the name.

sudo mv /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.disabled

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The #ayatana IRC channel will be having a meeting tomorrow, May 5th at
17:00 UTC. or 10:00 PDT for us.  I found out about the meeting from
Jono's blog at http://www.jonobacon.org

Enjoy,

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-- Grant Bowman                                   <grantbow at gmail.com>