update-notifier should not start update-manager without user input

[Peter Berry]

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.)

[Damiano Dallatana (damidalla)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 332945, so it is being marked as such - while it does seem to be slightly unrelated, the discussion on that bug is not only about updates icon, but also about undesired update-manager starting. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug.
Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.