Balloon notification keeps popping up and is driving me nuts

[TheBoyler]

This is happening on my MacOS, running Tahoe 26.1 - I don't have Elgato products installed. The DisplayLink Manager app is not running and the app is also disabled in the MenuBar section of settings, and still the pop up happens. It's incredibly intrusive and annoying.

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I've determined what I think to be a workaround.

DisplayLink launches a process called "CrashRestartHelper" when it is run.

Ending this process in Activity Monitor prevents the popups from occurring on my machine. I'd love somebody else with the problem to validate.

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Also, this thread seems to confuse two similar issues. For the issue where you get a popup saying "DisplayLink Manager is already running." that is the Elgato issue, it can be corrected by going to the Elgato Camera Hub software, hold down the CMD key while opening the Preferences page to show the hidden setting "Ensure DisplayLink Manager it running" and then uncheck that box.

[Szymon]

Hello,

Thanks for the clues.
Since your problem is distinct from the one with Camera Hub, could you share a screenshot of the popup you’re experiencing? I'd like to be sure that we have common understanding.

PS. Are you on the latest 14.2 DisplayLink Manager available?
https://www.synaptics.com/products/d...ownloads/macos

Regards,
Szymon

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Originally Posted by Szymon

Since your problem is distinct from the one with Camera Hub, could you share a screenshot of the popup you’re experiencing? I'd like to be sure that we have common understanding.

The problem I'm referencing is where the settings popup and shows, the same screen as chozen posted in the first post of this thread. It's not related to Camera Hub, but some people seemed to get it confused with that older issue.

Originally Posted by Szymon

PS. Are you on the latest 14.2 DisplayLink Manager available?

It looks like I'm on 14.1 Build 28. This started when I installed 14.1, I'll try 14.2 to see if there's any change and report back.