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Another thing that's REALLY annoying is: /etc/profile.d/PanMSInit.sh   (guh, no POSIX/Bash Shell language in thisforum editor's <code> widget???) #!/bin/bash PANGPA=/opt/paloaltonetworks/globalprotect/PanGPA pgrep -u $USER PanGPA > /dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then if [ -f $PANGPA ]; then $PANGPA start & fi fi   This unconditionally spins off a PanGP process for ALL interactive users.  That's absurd.  It also means, that when you login interactively, you get:   # exit logout There are running jobs. [1]+ Running $PANGPA start & #   requiring you exit twice, orkill thesejobs.  Spinning that process up should be done some other way (suid exe called by the user-agent (globalprotect | panGUI) or somethign else.    At least please check if it's the 'root' user and don't do it.   thanks, --stephen ... View more

You can blacklist the PanGPUI process from being saved in KDE session saves with: kwriteconfig --file ksmserverrc --group General --key excludeApps PanGPUI Warning: this will overwrite anything you have for that key already. it'll also remove any comments in your ksmsserverrc file. This is a PER-USER change as is. (you could create an override in /etc/xdg with the same effect for all users.  Or...  manually: kcmshell5 kcmsmserver And either selecting "Start with an empty session", use "Restore manually saved session" (that doesn't have PanGPUI in it already), or if using "Restore previous session", specify: "PanGPUI" in the field titled "Applications to be excluded from sessions:" ... View more

I'm using 5.1.0-101 and here's my perception: The UI is started by an XDG (FreeDesktop) .desktop file that gets installed to /etc/xdg/autostart/PanGPUI.desktop) The Exec for this is:  Exec=/opt/paloaltonetworks/globalprotect/PanGPUI The running app is : /opt/paloaltonetworks/globalprotect/PanGPUI start (so not sure how the 'start' argument gets added)   This installs a System Tray item (looks like a globe), so if your DE doesn't support a System Tray, maybe you won't see any UI for it.   A co-worker clicks on the icon, and the interface window appears at the top of the screen.  however, unless he moves the cursor REALLY fast, the window disappears before he gets to it.   I don't have that problem, but i do have the problem where clicking on he hamburger icon of that window is REALLY touchy, and moving the mouse causes the popup menu to disappear -- so i have to use the cursor keys to select [ Settings | About ] I am *sad* that the 'globalprotect' cli executable now always throws :     Unable to run GlobalProtect CLI while GlobalProtect UI is running. Please consider installing the CLI only install package. At least allow us to get the status (show --details, ...) stuff that way, because the UI doesn't give it in a useful way. Also, while 'globalprotect show --notification' never showed the portal notification message, the new notification UI popup overwrites the message onto a single line over and over making it unreadable.    That all said...  I'm also *sad* about the following:   'globalprotect' cli returns 1 for all commands successful or not.  it should return 0 for success so we can script around it.   Also, every instantiation of 'globalprotect' (even --help) has a builtin alarm() that forces a 60 second delay.  so running the command multiple times (like to get multiple outputs for 'globalprotect show --{item}) take FOREVER. also, sad-making... when the installer extracts to /opt/paloaltonetwork/ it doesn't bother to try to set proper ownership (user/group), leaving things owned by random matching UID/GID from the tarball.  (for me it's ntp:Debian-exim)   I am frankly disgusted and exhausted over the quality of software in general over the past decade and trying to find current/correct documentation and working around bugs and misfeatures.   siiiiigggghhhhhhh.   (also, the text-enry in this discussion forum is almost invisible to me, making it quite hard to type this message.  maybe it's just my Debian Stretch/Firefox setup)   Leaving on  a high note.  At least, thanks for finally getting a UI for Linux.  Just allow us to also use the CLI simultaneously, and fix the bugs in the cli. thanks, --stephen ... View more