In the meantime, I've found a workaround to keep the systray application from launching. The launcher resides at /etc/xdg/autostart/hplip- systray.desktop
Rather than deleting the file entirely, I just changed the permissions to not allow reading: sudo chmod 000 /etc/xdg/autostart/hplip-systray.desktop I restarted KDE, and no more icon. I haven't tried printing to an HP printer yet, but it looks to me like it just disabled the system tray icon, not any other functionality. If anyone knows better, please speak up. -- Hide icon in system tray/notification area if nothing to notify https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248054 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs