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

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 04 May 2014 18:29:44 -0400, you wrote:

>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.

This one is new in 14.04.

>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>

This happens in 12.04.

>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.

This also happens in 12.04.

>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.

I think you must have just forgotten fixing these things in 12.04 -
two years ago is a long time.

>Thanks
>-WD