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#11
Originally Posted by Benson View Post
Well, that's easy enough. If you've got gconf-editor installed, just go to /apps/hildon/update-notifier and set check_interval to something really huge. If not, then you really should install it, but this'll do the same thing:
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gconftool -st int /apps/hildon/update-notifier/check_interval 2147483647
If you don't manually check for updates in the next 4083 years, it will still go ahead and try to check automatically, but bandwidth should be cheap enough by then for this to be a non-issue.
What ever happened to just turning it off? This is like Y2K all over again! You watch! In 4083 years, we'll be all like, 'OMG!! WTF?? LOL!'
 

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I prefer off to thousand-year-delay myself. But apparently "off" is an alien concept.

Very frustrating. "check_interval" is the only control? 0 is sometimes an "off" value but attempts to set 0 revert to 1440.

Relocating /usr/lib/hildon-desktop/libhildon-update-notifier.so* stopped it in its tracks. Unknown side effects, but didn't stop the Application Manager GUI from checking for updates. Not what I'd consider a good solution.
 
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Uhm... qwerty12 already pointed to the place where the recurring event is defined. Just edit the XML (carefully!) and restart alarmd.
 

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I could have sworn there was a way to set it from GUI, but can't remember whether it was from app manager or control panel sub-sub-sub-submenu...

Last edited by attila77; 2009-07-14 at 10:54.
 
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app manager is hiding a settings dialog, but to access it one need to restart app manager after doing the red pill switch...
 

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Originally Posted by tso View Post
app manager is hiding a settings dialog, but to access it one need to restart app manager after doing the red pill switch...
Yeah, and IIRC that allows you to disable it (but not to set the interval -- the default 24h is too long for my taste!), but I'm not sure whether that persists after switching back to blue pill.
 
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Originally Posted by lma View Post
Uhm... qwerty12 already pointed to the place where the recurring event is defined. Just edit the XML (carefully!) and restart alarmd.
When the event kept reappearing I concluded that it was not the root of the problem. Alot of this would be attributable to not killing alarmd first. Also, tweaking the check_interval with gconftool generated a replacement event.
 

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When the event kept reappearing I concluded that it was not the root of the problem. Alot of this would be attributable to not killing alarmd first.
Probably, I just tried it (including restarting alarmd) and it didn't reappear even after starting h-a-m and doing a manual update.

Also, tweaking the check_interval with gconftool generated a replacement event.
Indeed it does, but that's reasonable IMHO.
 
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Originally Posted by lma View Post
Probably, I just tried it (including restarting alarmd) and it didn't reappear even after starting h-a-m and doing a manual update.
Over my dialup internet connection the downloads were taking longer than the 1 minute check interval. With the next event firing immediately my edits weren't taking effect.

Once it got sorted out the event did not reappear until I toggled [Control Panel > Panels > Status bar > Software update notifier] on. Toggling it off did not remove the event.
 
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DDTT :-)
 
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