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update-notifier package

  1. Bug #1246364
  2. Comment #35

Comment 35 for bug 1246364

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Forest (foresto) wrote : Re: update-notifier does not show a tray icon in xubuntu

Here's a patch against the version of update-notifier in current utopic snapshots. The patched version preserves the new (broken) behavior by default, but restores the ability to disable auto-launch using this command line:

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

Once that setting is in place, restarting update-manager will restore the old behavior.
(If someone wants to expand on this patch and add a GUI check box for this setting, please do.)

Note: There is a related bug that can prevent the update-notifier icon from showing up on non-Unity desktops. Libappindicator is supposed to fall back to good old systray icons in that case, but it doesn't always. If your system exhibits the bug, try installing an Indicator plugin on your desktop's panel, if one is available. Xfce users can get one from the xfce4-indicator-plugin package, which I believe is installed by default in new utopic installations. Here's the bug report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/libappindicator/+bug/1086656