Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: update-notifier
Since upgrading to Jaunty, I've found that a while after logging in, if
there are updates available, whatever I'm doing is usurped by an update-
manager window, i.e. it steals focus. I didn't manually start update-
manager so I think it must be being started by update-notifier. This
seems to be corroborated by the fact that if I close update-manager,
kill update-notifier and then start update-notifier again, update-
manager starts. I don't even use update-manager, I use aptitude instead.
So this behaviour is both annoying and unhelpful.
If this behaviour is intended, I would at least like the option to turn
it off. It might be relevant that my window manager is xmonad - it might
not steal focus under Metacity for all I know. But IMO automatically
starting another program without user input is rude, unnecessary, and if
the user uses a different update program, useless. (I like having
update-notifier being in the notification area to tell me when updates
are available, but I don't use it to actually do updates.)
** Affects: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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update-notifier should not start update-manager without user input
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/383728
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