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I've installed multipass using this command:

sudo snap install multipass

Now, there's an ugly orange icon that displays in the system status area ("systray") of GNOME Shell in the top right corner of the screen.

How can I stop multipass from launching upon system startup? Can I disable the icon, at least?

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  • Bug report for the icon being in orange instead of black and white: https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/1240 – Flimm Jul 15 '23 at 13:15

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Disabling multipass icon:

Click on the multipass icon, then select "About", then uncheck "Autostart on login".

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(If you think that this option shouldn't be under the "About" menu, leave a thumbs-up emoji in this GitHub issue.)

If you prefer the command-line, you can run:

multipass set client.gui.autostart=false

This option is remembered even after a reboot.

Stopping multipass from running the background:

Merely disabling the icon does not stop multipass from running in the background. If you want to stop it from running in the background (until the next reboot), run:

sudo snap stop multipass.multipassd

To start it again, run:

sudo snap start multipass.multipassd

If you want to disable multipass entirely, without uninstalling it, run:

sudo snap disable multipass

To enable it again, run:

sudo snap enable multipass
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