Hi!
Please keep the bug in the loop, so others can see the comments as
well (just "Reply All").
2014-09-10 7:22 GMT+02:00 Jamil Said Jr. <jamils...@hotmail.com>:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> I possibly found an workaround for LXDE on this problem: autostarting
> gnome-settings-daemon every session (that is: adding @gnome-settings-daemon
> to /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart).
>
> After doing that the update notification appears as a regular notification on
> the "system tray" of LXDE (note: this LXDE installation was on top of regular
> Debian 7.6 keeping gdm3 as display manager). It's working like a charm.
>
> What do you think about this workaround? May that break things?
No, it definitively doesn't :) But it's also not exactly lightweight,
so this will likely not become a default setting for LXDE/LXQt.
> Again, thank you for your time and great work,
:-)
Cheers,
Matthias
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k.matthia...@gmail.com [mailto:k.matthia...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> Matthias Klumpp
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 11:09 AM
> To: Jamil Said Jr.; 757...@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Bug#757989: No update notifications - Debian Wheezy 7.6 -
> gnome-packagekit 3.4.2-2
>
> Hi! (please keep the bug subscribed)
> 2014-08-13 19:49 GMT+02:00 Jamil Said Jr. <jamils...@hotmail.com>:
>> Thanks Mathias,
>>
>> I am surprised that the notifier won't work even on Gnome classic. I truly
>> regret that the great Debian OS made this horrid Gnome 3.4 the choice of
>> main desktop, a usability "disaster" imho.
>>
>> An extra side note: one can install the old update-notifier package (it
>> installs with an extra 5 packages in total with apt-get, including the old
>> update-manager-gnome) and that gives a working update icon on the tray in
>> Gnome classic and Lxde - however, as others have pointed out,
>> update-manager-gnome is badly updated, may be insecure and can "break
>> things", thus this solution is not recommended.
> The update-manager-gnome will be removed in Jessie (due to it's bugs), so
> that is at least no long-term solution.
> The notifications should work with GNOME-Classic though, if they don't, that
> is a bug. Did you change settings about that in gpk-prefs (or what are the
> notification settings there?) Cheers,
> Matthias
>
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