GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 789490
"Printer added" notification appears every few minutes
Last modified: 2019-03-20 11:48:48 UTC
Created attachment 362283 [details] Picture of the notification An OSD notification with the message "printer added" pops up approximately every two minutes. I'm in a network with a network printer, and it's that one that pops up. This message gets printed to the syslog each time the notification pops up: colord[1227]: failed to get session [pid 2331]: No data available I haven't installed any special printer/scanner drivers at all. Operating system: Ubuntu 17.10, GNOME Shell 3.26.1 (the default included one) Related AskUbuntu question: https://askubuntu.com/questions/918462/ubuntu-17-04-printer-added-notifications-under-gnome Related bug report on launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1725955
I have a theory that this is related to the network. Specifically when a DHCP lease is renewed (most common scenario) or when the wifi drops out and back in again. Looking at my syslog, I think I can corelate DHCP renews with the message popping up.
When I join a network with dozens of printers the notifications just don't stop. The existing gsettings key org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.print-notifications doesn't prevent them from showing up.
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