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update-notifier package

  1. Bug #46258
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Comment 2 for bug 46258

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James Henstridge (jamesh) wrote : Re: notifier icon does not start update-manager with startup notification

Yeah, I'm running the latest gksu.

As I understand it, the gksu changes only really help if the launching application is startup notification aware, and sets the environment variables appropriately (usually using libstartup-notification) to pass the timestamp for the launch action through to the new process. So it works great for launches from the panel or applications menu.

The update-notifier applet seems to just do a plain g_spawn() call, which doesn't do the necessary setup.