Ubuntu
update-notifier package

  1. Bug #1246364
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 1246364

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Adrianna Pińska (confluence) wrote : Re: update-notifier does not show a tray icon in xubuntu 13.10

This affects me on Fluxbox. I unset the auto_launch option a long time ago, because I find the popups extremely intrusive and annoying (but I do still find it useful to get a more subtle notification in the tray).

I think the volume of online HOWTOs explaining how to disable this behaviour (sometimes through extreme measures like disabling update notifications altogether or uninstalling the package) is a testament to its unpopularity.

I have installed the patched version from the PPA and can confirm that it restores the expected behaviour for me.