Comment 53 for bug 356152

Adam,

You may want to try using gconf-editor to change the settings for
update-notifier because it provides some additional options.

You can get there as follows:
      hit <alt> + <f2> then type "gconf-editor" and click [run].
      then, on the left, navigate to /apps/update-notifier.
      Now you can configure some additional options for update notifier

If you uncheck the box for auto_launch, that will cause update-notifier
to provide notifications in the system tray area the way it used to
instead of automatically launching the Update Manager program weekly.

If you change regular_auto_launch_interval to 0, then update-notifier
will notify you about updates when they become available.

On 05/10/2010 10:15 AM, Adam Seitz wrote:
> I have been running my updates manually everyday because my update
> notifier does not notify me. I am not a savvy Linux user. I am using
> Ubuntu because it makes this kind of thing easier for me. I would expect
> an updater to notify me of updates (daily as I have set it to)
> regardless of whether I ran it "Manually" or not.
>
> I read the entire string on this bug and I understand the "7 day" Window... but it's horrible from an end-user perspective. I would really like to be notified about ALL updates ... I selected that in the update-notifier - Here are my settings:
> * Important security updates (checked)
> * Recommended updates (checked)
> * Pre-Release updates (un-checked)
> * Unsupported updates (un-checked)
>
> * Check for updates "Daily" (checked).
> - Only notify about available updates
>
> * Show new distribution releases: "Normal releases"
>
> If you want to provide a set of check boxes in the GUI for severity
> checking that might work well. You could leave the default settings as
> "Security" and provide some optional check boxes for "Features" and
> "Fixes" or however Ubuntu categorizes these things. You have to
> understand the impression being made is "Wow! The updates doesn't work?
> What else is broken?"
>
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