How Do I Make This Go Away?

General Help
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I downloaded the app, wasn't feeling it, deleted it, and now I'm still getting this thing popping up like a bad penny.

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What for a Program did You installed, how did You installed it and how did You removed it?

3

I installed it from thr software store. I deleted it from thrvlist of my installed apps from the same location.

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It looks to me like you installed the Kopia program - a backup tool and probably installed the gui tool also. I'm guessing that you simply uninstalled the gui element and the main program, which is sending you notifications, is still installed.

I checked the Kopia documentation by going to the github repository that was in your post and there is an installation guide but not instructions to remove it. The documentation can be found Kopia Documentation

You could check if kopia is running using this in a terminal:-

ps aux | grep kopia

Then run the apt remove or apt purge command and remove kopia like this:-

sudo apt remove kopia

I hope this is helpful and sorry if any of this isn't accurate.

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In which package format did you have kopia installed? If it was an flatpak then the last command above (sudo apt remove kopia) doesn't work.

Perhaps the program was running in background when you uninstalled it.
It may help to install kopia again on the same way as before and quit the program before removing it.

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Thank you both for taking the time. I'm almost sure it was a flatpack, but I'll check in just a bit. In thr event it is as I bekieve. What are my options?

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That is a general helpsite:

When the flatpak is installed, you can run

flatpak list

to find out the exact name of the kopia flatpak.

To remove it run

flatpak uninstall name-of-the-kopia-flatpak
(enter the app-name here)

As you have already uninstalled the app it is probably not shown in the list.
So I'd recommend to install it again, stop all running processes of the app and then remove it. Look if you can right-click on the tray icon and select exit or quit or somewhere in the menu. On some apps clicking on close button (x) doesn't stop the program.

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