Brave popup - how to delete?

[Keith]

On 11/7/22 2:15 AM, rikona wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Nov 2022 08:50:00 -0600
> Keith <keith at caramail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/5/22 5:54 PM, rikona wrote:
>>> Running Brave browser in Kubuntu. Runs OK but update installed a
>>> popup window that in on top in every desktop. Closing it gives
>>> another one in a few minutes - essentially always there covering
>>> something desirable in EVERY desktop/every app. One net solution
>>> was to run snap update but doesn't work in all cases, and not in
>>> mine. This is a PITA and so bad I may stop using Brave. But, is
>>> there SOME way to get rid of this popup, or at least have it STAY
>>> closed?
>>>
>>> And if it does stay closed or not come up constantly on your box,
>>> can I find out why that is?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rik
>>>    
>>
>> Doesn't Kubuntu have a way to configure notification settings? In
>> Ubuntu, you'd navigate to Settings->Notifications->Snap User Session
>> Agent. There you can turn off pop-up banner notifications whenever
>> there are snap updates. I assume that Kubuntu has a similar feature
>> to control notification settings since one of the advantages of KDE
>> touted by its users is how configurable it is.
> 
> Settings->Notifications-> has NOTHING about Snap at all
> AND
> Brave ignores EVERY setting in Notifications!
> 
>> Plus, Brave may have a settings option for notifications within the
>> application itself. You might check into that.
> 
> Nothing in Brave settings and NOTHING on Brave website either!
> 
> Many complaints online but no fix I could find that worked. I was
> hoping someone here might have an idea to prevent that popup window at a
> code level, or perhaps auto-close it if it does pop up.
> 
> 

Hmm. Surprising that Snapd User Session Agent isn't listed under the 
Configure Applications dialog from the Notifications section under 
System-Settings. Its .desktop file (io.snapcraft.SessionAgent) is found 
in /usr/share/applications, so I would have expected it to be listed 
like it is in Ubuntu:

https://snapcraft.io/docs/refresh-awareness#heading--notification

Anyways

One thing you might try after refreshing Brave from the command-line is 
to stop snap-store and then restart it. Sometimes the snap-store has 
cached information about pending updates that doesn't automatically get 
updated after a command-line manual refresh. So it might still show a 
snap has an update available when it really doesn't. Stopping the 
snap-store and then restarting it will usually force it to refresh its 
cache.

(no sudo)
$ snap-store --quit

(no sudo)
ALT-F2 for Run command: snap-store

If that doesn't help then I suppose that you can mask the 
snapd.session-agent.service user service to disable it and prevent any 
notifications from snapd from appearing on the desktop.

(Since the service is run with user privileges, sudo is not necessary)
$ systemctl --user stop snapd.session-agent.service (if its running)
$ systemctl --user mask snapd.session-agent.service

-- 
Keith