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Jos
Asked: 2020-03-04 00:22:02 +0800 CST

Unknown window pops up

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Twice in the last 24 hours, a strange window has suddenly popped up on my screen. It says "Hotspot login" on top, and just this one link. The name of the process is gnome-shell-portal-helper.

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I don't need a portal helper, the wifi is working fine.

The link "check_network_status.txt" points to http://nmcheck.gnome.org/check_network_status.txt. Now you must be curious to know what happens when you click on it (I would be): it shows a web page with the text "NetworkManager is online".

What is the point of this window? Has anyone experienced this?

I'm on 19.10, Gnome shell version 3.34.1.

Edit: I notice that the window opens every time the computer wakes up from sleep.

gnome gnome-shell 19.10

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I found the answer with the help of this answer from the Unix/Linux StackExchange.

    Go to Settings/Privacy and turn off Network connectivity checking.

    That's all.

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