Comment 3 for bug 420625

I find this annoying, too. It used to be that an icon would appear in the Notification Area, and clicking that icon would bring up the Update Manager window on your current workspace. I liked that way better.

My workaround is to right-click the pulsing [Update Manager] button in the window list, select "Always on Visible Workspace", and then left-click the button. It bugs me that this takes 3 clicks, but it's better than hunting through my many workspaces.

I have considered using devilspie to automatically set the "Always on Visible Workspace" flag for the Update Manager window whenever it comes up ... but I don't like the idea that I have to install something extra, and figure out its non-trivial config-file syntax, to get basic, non-obnoxious behavior.