Brave popup - how to delete?

[rikona]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 09:45:46 -0600
Keith <keith at caramail.com> wrote:

> On 11/9/22 1:08 AM, rikona wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Nov 2022 09:46:43 -0600
> > Keith <keith at caramail.com> wrote:
> >   
> 
> [snipped]
> 
> >   
> >> Can you issue the following commands?
> >>
> >> $ gsettings --version  
> > 2.64.6  
> >> $ ls -l ~/.config/dconf/user  
> > just gives file  
> >>
> >> Maybe there's another angle to try if none of the above work.  
> 
> I know from reading below that you've already disabled the 
> snapd.session-agent.service by masking it, and it should take care of 
> the problem. It's snapd that generating the pop-up and not the Brave 
> browser. You'd get the same pop-up with another snap packaged browser 
> (or any snap application for that matter) like Firefox or Chromium if 
> they happened to be running at the same time snapd tries to refresh
> them with an update.

I did disable snapd.session-agent.service by masking it, and it did
indeed stop the popups! THANK YOU!!!! I've gone a whole day without it
blocking stuff - a great relief. For now, I'll just leave it that way
and when I get time I'll try the suggestion below. And yes, I'm
familiar with the line problem. :-)

I thought there might be a way to do this at a code level, and you
found it. Again, many thanks!

Rik

> However, there is one thing left to try that would be preferable to 
> disabling the snapd session-agent service. Right now, its primary 
> function seems to be to just notify the user that a snap update can't 
> proceed unless the snap app is closed. But in future releases of
> snapd, the session-agent service might do more - in which case, it
> would need to be re-enabled lest it potentially cause problems.
> 
> So, if you are willing try one more thing, you'll need to unmask the 
> service (same systemctl command you used before except change "mask"
> to "unmask" to re-enable it. Then you need to install a package from
> the apt repos called dconf-cli. Once installed, type the following
> command in a terminal: (no sudo)
> 
> $ dconf read 
> /org/gnome/desktop/notifications/application/io-snapcraft-sessionagent/enable
> 
> If there is no result, then just go with the masking of the 
> session-agent service previously covered.  If there is a result and
> its "true" then type the following:
> 
> $ dconf write 
> /org/gnome/desktop/notifications/application/io-snapcraft-sessionagent/show-banners 
> false
> 
> This will leave notifications enabled, but turn off displaying the 
> pop-up banner for the snapd session agent service. To turn off 
> completely, change "show-banners false" to "enable false"
> 
> See how that goes. If no more pop-ups, then stay with this solution.
> If pop-ups continue, go with masking the snapd session agent service.
> 
> [snipped]
> 
> >>>      
> >>>> $ systemctl --user mask snapd.session-agent.service  
> > 
> > Gave:
> > symlink -> dev/null
> > 
> > [some stuff does not seem to be copying from the CLI - typed in]
> > 
> > I'll have to wait a while - with luck, no more popup!  
> 
> Pretty confident that this will stop the pop-ups, but you may need to 
> logout and back in again. Wouldn't hurt. Also, completely closing
> Brave down (making sure it has no background processes still running)
> and manually refreshing the Brave snap would ordinarily have gotten
> rid of the pop-up once Plasma-Discover updated its list of pending
> updates (i think)
> 
> > 
> > Any many thanks again - I don't work at this level and don't
> > understand it well, so really like and need the help.
> > 
> > Rik
> >    
> Hope it works!
>