[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu 14.04 and unwanted pop-ups

[Will Dormann]

Since switching to Mythbuntu 14.04, I've noticed the system behaving
less like a MythTV appliance, and more like an Ubuntu system that
happens to have MythTV installed on it.

The first thing I ran into was the xfce panel at the top occasionally.
I thought that the "reserve space on borders" option fixed it, but it
still seems the same.   Being intermittent, it's tricky to immediately
see what fixes it.   I'll have to look into the other suggested
workarounds I suppose.

The other thing I ran into is an apport (crash reporter) dialog that
came up.   I think I've now got it disabled, by following the steps
outlined here:
<http://askubuntu.com/questions/93457/how-do-i-enable-or-disable-apport>

The most recent thing I ran into is the Ubuntu Software Updater dialog
coming up.   One workaround might be to disable the checking for
updates, but that doesn't seem ideal.   Alternatively, perhaps removing
update-manager might work, if I do any updating manually from a terminal.

What's odd is that I never had any of these issues with earlier
Mythbuntu systems.   Am I doing something wrong, or has Ubuntu just
become more "in your face" with recent versions, and whatever worked in
the past is now requiring extra configuration to disable.   Regardless,
I'd have hoped that Mythbuntu would have come configured to behave more
nicely out of the box.


Thanks
-WD