Hi all, Thanks Matthias for the feedback.
Some side notes: regarding not being light (the workaround), the systems feel very fast: with (virtually) equal capabilities of the regular Gnome installation, the LXDE version (built on top of regular Debian 7.6) boots a staggering 50% faster than the gnome gui in some 5 year old laptops (I actually clocked that in 2 different samples); it also feels (and is) MUCH faster during operation (open programs, navigating, etc), and it gives me the capability to put links on the desktop. I love it! My ideal machine would have the LXDE desktop with most of the gnome applications working in the background (gnome is very solid, stable and reliable, but the desktop GUI I would pass on). Cheers, Jamil -----Original Message----- From: k.matthia...@gmail.com [mailto:k.matthia...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Matthias Klumpp Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 8:10 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 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 > > -- > I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/ > -- I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
