Brave popup - how to delete?

[rikona]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 12:02:11 -0600
Keith <keith at caramail.com> wrote:

> 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:

I do have io.snapcraft.SessionAgent in that dir but nothing 'snap' in
the Notifications section.

I do have "local system message service" as a Notifications item but
don't know what that does.
> 
> 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.

Will this cause other/all snaps to stop/start and possibly lose data?

> 
> (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)

How can I see if it is running?

> $ systemctl --user mask snapd.session-agent.service

What else will this stop besides the popup?

Thanks much for these extra ideas! Would be nice to just get it to
stop. :-)

Rik