Bug#382182: gnome-cups-manager: No way to disable gnome-cups-icon

Guus Sliepen guus at debian.org
Wed Aug 9 14:35:30 UTC 2006


On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 03:54:51PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> > It appears that there is no way to disable gnome-cups-icon, short of
> > overwriting the binary with /bin/false or something equally drastic. As
> > I am on a network with a central CUPS server that provides hundreds of
> > printers, which gnome-cups-icon polls approximately every second, this
> > gives rise to a significant constant network load, and lots of icons in
> > the message area of printers I am not interested in.
> 
> It is started as part of the default GNOME session. You can just remove
> it in the session properties capplet.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I've already tried that, but next
time I start the Gnome desktop, it is back.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <guus at debian.org>
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