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update-notifier package

  1. Bug #1246364
  2. Comment #41

Comment 41 for bug 1246364

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

This is still a problem in vivid. It looks like GNOME users have a new update notification based on PackageKit, but AFAICT, users of Xubuntu and other desktops are still stuck using the (now broken) update-notifier. My patch still works with the version of update-notifier that is included in Vivid, so it really wouldn't take much for the maintainer(s) to fix this problem.

Side note: I did find a relatively new package called pk-update-icon that looks like it's intended to take over the job that update-notifier used to do, but sadly, it depends on GNOME packages (including, indirectly, gnome-settings-daemon and libwacom2). This makes it look like a bad choice for Xfce.