Turning Off GNOME Warnings

2011-10-17 Thread Dave Cross
GNOME seems to think that my laptop has a dodgy hard disk. It's been telling me that for over a year. I'm not sure that it's correct, but I'm keeping a close eye on the situation anyway. Under GNOME 2 I would get a notification of this problem each time I restarted the computer. A pop-up would tel

Re: Turning Off GNOME Warnings

2011-10-17 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:22:27 +0100 Dave Cross wrote: > GNOME seems to think that my laptop has a dodgy hard disk. It's been > telling me that for over a year. I'm not sure that it's correct Red Hat seems to like to ship tools with the slightly questionable view that a disk reporting plenty of ba

Re: Turning Off GNOME Warnings

2011-10-17 Thread Richard Hughes
On 17 October 2011 11:22, Dave Cross wrote: > Under GNOME 3 this notification is rather more persistent. GNOME > insists on repeating the pop-up every twenty minutes or so. This isn't > realyl very helpful. Run palimpset, click the disk, click "SMART data", then tick "Don't warn me if the disk is