Description of problem: I use a wire network connection. Every time I login into Gnome a window pops up and displays the Gnome homepage. The window belongs to the "/usr/libexec/gnome-shell-portal-helper" process. I would like to disable this window. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-shell: Version : 3.18.3 Release : 1.fc23 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login into Gnome Actual results: 2. Window appears with Gnome homepage. Expected results: 2. Window should not appear. Additional info: I took a bit of investigation to discover what process creates the window since the window title is the Gnome homepage title but "xprop" helped.
This bug is really annoying.
Here is a workaround: Set the uri to have no value("uri=") in /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity-fedora.conf https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/72535/how-do-i-stopdisable-networkmanager-connecting-to-fedoraprojectorg-every-5-minutes/
I have this: > cat /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity-fedora.conf [connectivity] uri= response=OK interval=300 But the pop-up still shows.
I am now seeing the same thing with Fedora 24 (two machines) - not seen this before this week, the file /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity-fedora.conf no longer exists so I cannot test the workaround.
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I want to disable this functionality as well -- it is quite annoying, since it seems to pop up whenever my ISP connection flaps. It's completely irrelevant to me, since there is no captive portal. I cannot find a way to turn it off, so my current workaround is to replace the /usr/libexec/gnome-shell-portal-helper executable with a stub that does nothing. This isn't very future-proof, though, because I suppose package updates may replace it. I've turned on the 'i' attribute on the file so a package update will fail and hopefully I'll be able to remember what I did so I can undo it, install the update, and then replace it with the stub again. I'm surprised there isn't a configurable option somewhere to disable captive portal detection. The 'gnome-shell-portal-helper' process is a child of systemd, but I can't find anywhere to configure it not to run. I'm an old-school kind of *nix guy, and systemd is pretty strange to me, though, so I'm not surprised I can't find it. Seems like there could be a checkbox in the network settings area. If there's an easy way to configure my system so that it no longer does this, I would love to know.
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