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Discover nags while watching video (Fedora KDE) (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 8 hours ago by passenger@sopuli.xyz to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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Hi all, first time posting here.

Installed Fedora KDE Plasma half a year ago on a Thinkpad mostly used in the living room - for streaming / playing videos and minimal gaming. Having zero regrets. It is amazing how far we've come.

I have had very little issues with it, all being only slight annoyances. Nothing compared to win10 or needless to say the current abomination from Microslop... which doesn't want to run on this laptop anyway.

So, here is the first annoyance: when watching a video with VLC, fullscreen, sometimes Discover (the app store / updater thingy) will pop up full screen, says "refreshing..." or whatever, clearly wanting to inform me of some brand new updates.

Question is, how to make it not bother me when a video is being watched?

It is not a big deal, I just immediately close it, rewind a bit and that's it. But if there is some setting to tweak or some magic words to type, I am interested...

PS. I am so happy about this move to Linux. Thank you Microslop for pushing me over.

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[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago

I'm not sure what, but there must be something in the settings. My Debian/KDE installation for my TV just shows an icon in the system tray, no window opens at all.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You should be able to configure your notification settings by right clicking the notifications icon (a bell) in your task bar and clicking on "configure notifications" or something similar. Have you tried that?

[–] passenger@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure this is a notification. The Discover window suddenly opens, maximized, on top of the fullscreen video.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, that definitely isn't normal. I've never encountered that before. You might want to ask in the. !kde@lemmy.kde.social community for help. Do provide details like your distro its version and so on. You can open your system settings and go to the "about" or "system information" section to find all the details. It will be necessary to get help.

[–] passenger@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

Thanks. I feel it is the automatic updates, which I have set to weekly, but I would think it were in the background and not popping up in the middle of a movie.

I also update frequently so I would have though that would reset the weekly timer but that's probably not how it works...

Distro is Fedora KDE Plasma 43, not at the machine so no more details available right now.