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Hello,
I don't remember this being default behaviour but the last three or four times after logging in up pops Discover.
Discover's settings don't appear to have a setting to disable this behaviour.

I may be misremembering but I'm fairly sure I wasn't prompted to apply updates - and certainly not by a GUI Application with the updates already in place for downloading.
It is hard to ignore when it's right in your face.

For updating I like to use the command line based pkcon.

I checked in KDE System Settings to see if autostart had any reference to Discover but nothing there.

Anywhere else I can look to see if I have accidentally ( or wilfully) enabled this current behaviour.

If not, is it OK to uninstall Discover or is it policy to always have it pop up?

I would like to think it isn't and there is remedy to make it cease and desist until called for by the user.

All the very best to you,

hugh

edit: after logging on today I noticed that Discover did not flash up on the screen. Instead there was an update informational icon on the task bar. This is acceptable for now. Certainly nothing I did made this latest behaviour occur unless it was in the most recent set of updates.

Ah,
Wrote too soon.
On today's log in "Discover" was right in my face again alerting me to 1 update.
Surely there is some way to disable this without uninstalling?

Yours in lockdown fellowship,
Hugh

scrawfuela wrote:Ah,
Wrote too soon.
On today's log in "Discover" was right in my face again alerting me to 1 update.
Surely there is some way to disable this without uninstalling?

Yours in lockdown fellowship,
Hugh

I have been experiencing the same thing of late.

Hmm... I've experienced this too, a couple of times. Have no idea why it happens and have not been much bothered by it, because i don't log out of a session very often.

@avgordinaryguy
@sgage

Thank you both for your responses.
I forgot to add that since installation in the dim distant past, I also run the gtk updater - you know the one that shows all the PPAs and sources and choosing best update location for the OS?

There is a setting in there with a tick box that I had ticked for automatically download and/or install security updates.

I thought that might be the culprit but logically there must have been more than one security update in the last year or two.
Or, are security updates delivered separately from "average ordinary system and software" updates?

Stumped.
Can live with it.

Best wishes

The default setting for Plasma desktop sessions is to load applications that were running when the user logged off. Sometimes, it is possible that an application gets "stuck" and opens at login even if it was not opened.

You should be able to fix this be temporarily disabling saved sessions in System Settings, then re-enabling it after the left login.
Another thing to do if it still persists, after first reporting it as a bug is to add plasma-discover to the list of programs to exclude from saved sessions.

claydoh wrote:The default setting for Plasma desktop sessions is to load applications that were running when the user logged off. Sometimes, it is possible that an application gets "stuck" and opens at login even if it was not opened.

You should be able to fix this be temporarily disabling saved sessions in System Settings, then re-enabling it after the left login.
Another thing to do if it still persists, after first reporting it as a bug is to add plasma-discover to the list of programs to exclude from saved sessions.

claydoh!!

Spot on. I can only speculate that a recent heavy update has reset that particular setting in system setting - I am using user edition of neon.
My default setting in any KDE/Plasma distro is to start with an empty session.

Whatever the reason, my negligence, my forgetfulness...thank you so much

Best wishes,
Hugh