[Solved] Update notifier

Mellowbob · 2012-05-08 17:48:18

I've recently upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 with XFCE4.

In my previous install a "updates available" icon would come up in the panel when they were available. Not so now.

I have made sure the Notificiations applet is active. Yes.

And I found something the web suggesting that I use gconf-editor to set (or unset) the update-notifier auto-launch. No differences found with this.

I should add that update-manager is running okay. If I select it from a menu it shows that updates have been dl'd and are ready to install. Just need a notification.

Suggestions?

Last edited by Mellowbob (2012-05-08 17:52:05)

ToZ · 2012-05-08 18:18:58

Try using gsettings (or dconf-editor) instead. I believe gconf is deprecated:

gsettings set com.ubuntu.update-notifier auto-launch false

Mellowbob · 2012-05-09 16:23:27

Thanks. That fixes the problem.

Jerry3904 · 2014-01-19 16:35:24

We have installed that in Xfce 4.10 on Debian Stable. Notification part works fine, and an icon appears in the Notification Area when an update is available, but neither right- nor left-click has any effect, contrary to what the notification indicates.

Any suggestions about where we should begin to track this behavior down?

ToZ · 2014-01-19 17:23:32

Jerry3904 wrote:

We have installed that in Xfce 4.10 on Debian Stable. Notification part works fine, and an icon appears in the Notification Area when an update is available, but neither right- nor left-click has any effect, contrary to what the notification indicates.
Any suggestions about where we should begin to track this behavior down?

I don't use Debian so I'm not sure whether there this is a distro issue or not, but to rule out a simpler possible cause, do you have overlapping panels where another panel may be intercepting the mouse click?

Jerry3904 · 2014-01-19 18:46:49

Nope, but thanks. We have been investigating, and the problem seems to be the link between update-notifier and update-manager in Wheezy. The exact same packages installed in a testing version of Debian produce the expected behavior: clicking on the update icon calls update-manager.

So pretty clearly nothing to do with Xfce--sorry to have posted it here.

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