Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Disabling Update notifier popup in ubuntu

Folks who use Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) might be bugged by a particularly irritating feature: as soon as you log in, the update-notifier pops in and asks you to upgrade - and keeps popping in forever at regular intervals! Some (or most) people get irritated when they see a pop-up anywhere while they are working..

Here's how you disable this annoying pop-up:
1. Open the terminal
2. Type the following command:
gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false

- If, for some reason, you want to revert back, you can issue the same command and type 'true' instead of false.

Source: click here (this one also gives a GUI based method)

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Good yaar.. its really helpful to get rid of irritating update msg.. thnx.