Rares Aioanei wrote: > It's PackageKit, most likely. Try running gpk-prefs. gpk-prefs has no effect whatsoever under KDE Plasma sessions, where Apper is used, not gnome-packagekit. There is a setting for the frequency of checking in Apper (and "a few minutes" isn't even an option, the minimum is hourly), but it doesn't work, see the bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752564 already linked by the original poster. There's also this bug filed about the slowness and insane CPU consumption of the checks: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748790 Kevin Kofler _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org