dexter11 Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 Il ike the little green update applet which alerts me if there are updates available. My only problem has been that it hogs a lot of resources for the first minute, when I prefer to get started with a web browser or a music player. The applet does not have an easy way to change its configuration but I found some interesting lines of code in /usr/bin/mdkapplet > $config{UPDATE_FREQUENCY} ||= 3*60*60; # default to 3hours > $config{FIRST_CHECK_DELAY} ||= 25 * 1000; # default to 25 seconds The first line controls the intervals between checking for updates, the second one how long time after startup the applet should check for updates. I changed the second line to: $config{FIRST_CHECK_DELAY} ||= 600 * 1000; so the applet will wait 10 minutes (eg. 600 seconds) before starting. In those 10 minutes I've had enough time to start whatever programs I'd like to use. Mattias Thuresson from: http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=79734 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hq197 Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 (edited) from: http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=79734 configuring the mdkapplet is not very easy. "System > preferences > advanced >session >mandriva online applet" didn't do the trick for me. I took the good advice from this forum (thank you) To enable autostart I had still needed to gedit /root/.MdkOnline/mdkonline and edit AUTOSTART=TRUE it's all good now Edited February 13, 2008 by hq197 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 I'm wondering why you had to edit /root/.MdkOnline/mdkonline - it looks like you are logging in as root, rather than a regular user - which is extremely, extremely unsecure and something you shouldn't do. For anyone else, you should be editing /home/username/.MdkOnline/mdkonline and not be logging in as root to use your system - that is simply bad practice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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