It sounds, however, like you want to configure Khweeteur, not Woodchuck.
If you want to disable Khweeteur's notifications, you can do that in its settings dialog. Click on the menu, preferences, and then uncheck: "Show errors notifications", "DM Notifications", "Mention Notifications" and "Timeline Notifications".
Currently, Khweeteur does not have an option to disable the use of Woodchuck. You can still accomplish this using the aforementioned tool: Code: user@Nokia-N900-42-11:~$ woodchuck-cli 1: FeedingIt (org.marcoz.feedingit) 2: Application Update Manager (org.woodchuck.apt-woodchuck) 3: Khweeteur (net.khertan.khweeteur.daemon) 4: gPodder (org.gpodder) > print 3 cookie: net.khertan.khweeteur.daemon dbus_object: dbus_service_name: net.khertan.khweeteur.daemon enabled: 1 human_readable_name: Khweeteur parent_UUID: priority: 0 registration_time: Fri Oct 7 13:07:33 2011 (1317989253) UUID: 03a9a6377b4af0d05f9be0e30f34d553 > set 3 enabled 0 Changing enabled: 1 => 0 > print 3 cookie: net.khertan.khweeteur.daemon dbus_object: dbus_service_name: net.khertan.khweeteur.daemon enabled: 0 human_readable_name: Khweeteur parent_UUID: priority: 0 registration_time: Fri Oct 7 13:07:33 2011 (1317989253) UUID: 03a9a6377b4af0d05f9be0e30f34d553
user@Nokia-N900-42-11:~$ woodchuck-cli 1: FeedingIt (org.marcoz.feedingit) 2: Application Update Manager (org.woodchuck.apt-woodchuck) 3: Khweeteur (net.khertan.khweeteur.daemon) 4: gPodder (org.gpodder) > print 3 cookie: net.khertan.khweeteur.daemon dbus_object: dbus_service_name: net.khertan.khweeteur.daemon enabled: 1 human_readable_name: Khweeteur parent_UUID: priority: 0 registration_time: Fri Oct 7 13:07:33 2011 (1317989253) UUID: 03a9a6377b4af0d05f9be0e30f34d553 > set 3 enabled 0 Changing enabled: 1 => 0 > print 3 cookie: net.khertan.khweeteur.daemon dbus_object: dbus_service_name: net.khertan.khweeteur.daemon enabled: 0 human_readable_name: Khweeteur parent_UUID: priority: 0 registration_time: Fri Oct 7 13:07:33 2011 (1317989253) UUID: 03a9a6377b4af0d05f9be0e30f34d553
If you tell me more precisely what you want to accomplish, I might have an idea on how to improve Woodchuck / Khweeteur.