11:32 a.m.
Hi,
has anyone figured out a way bring back update notifications to Xfce? It
getting boring to open yumex or Terminal to do a yum check-update and
recognize that there are no updates available.
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Regards,
Heiko Adams
1:56 p.m.
Hmmm i think I needed to install the Xfce notify package for it to work
smooge
On Aug 10, 2011 10:32 AM, "Heiko Adams" <fedora-updates(a)heiko-adams.de>
wrote:
Hi,
has anyone figured out a way bring back update notifications to Xfce? It
getting boring to open yumex or Terminal to do a yum check-update and
recognize that there are no updates available.
--
Regards,
Heiko Adams
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2:40 p.m.
Am Mittwoch, den 10.08.2011, 12:56 -0600 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen:
Hmmm i think I needed to install the Xfce notify package for it to
work
I guess you mean xfce4-notifyd, but this does not work anyway. The
problem is that gpk-update-icon only produces persistend notifications
that onle work in gnome-shell. They don't work with notification-deamon
either, so GNOME fallback mode lacks update notifcations, too.
More info on this is in this thread of March this year:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/xfce/2011-March/000458.html
The only solutions I am aware of:
1. Patch the xfce4-smartpm-plugin for xfce4-panel 4.8
2. Package Panu's update icon (see above list thread)
Regards,
Christoph
6:16 a.m.
On 08/10/2011 10:40 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 10.08.2011, 12:56 -0600 schrieb Stephen John
Smoogen:
> Hmmm i think I needed to install the Xfce notify package for it to
> work
I guess you mean xfce4-notifyd, but this does not work anyway. The
problem is that gpk-update-icon only produces persistend notifications
that onle work in gnome-shell. They don't work with notification-deamon
either, so GNOME fallback mode lacks update notifcations, too.
More info on this is in this thread of March this year:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/xfce/2011-March/000458.html
The only solutions I am aware of:
1. Patch the xfce4-smartpm-plugin for xfce4-panel 4.8
2. Package Panu's update icon (see above list thread)
2) would require turning the code into something more real-world
capable... and I never got around to do it as I realized I dont
particularly miss the update notifications.
And in fact, you do get notifications IF you're running
gnome-settings-daemon (ie have enabled "Launch GNOME services on
startup" in session settings), but they're just regular notification
bubbles and not persistent. Also the update-check runs so infrequently
by default that I rarely get to see them as I tend to run 'yum update'
manually once a day anyway.
- Panu -
8:13 a.m.
Am 12.08.2011 13:16, schrieb Panu Matilainen:
On 08/10/2011 10:40 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 10.08.2011, 12:56 -0600 schrieb Stephen John
> Smoogen:
>> Hmmm i think I needed to install the Xfce notify package for it
>> to work
>
> I guess you mean xfce4-notifyd, but this does not work anyway. The
> problem is that gpk-update-icon only produces persistend
> notifications that onle work in gnome-shell. They don't work with
> notification-deamon either, so GNOME fallback mode lacks update
> notifcations, too.
>
> More info on this is in this thread of March this year:
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/xfce/2011-March/000458.html
>
>
>
The only solutions I am aware of:
> 1. Patch the xfce4-smartpm-plugin for xfce4-panel 4.8 2. Package
> Panu's update icon (see above list thread)
2) would require turning the code into something more real-world
capable... and I never got around to do it as I realized I dont
particularly miss the update notifications.
And in fact, you do get notifications IF you're running
gnome-settings-daemon (ie have enabled "Launch GNOME services on
startup" in session settings), but they're just regular notification
bubbles and not persistent. Also the update-check runs so
infrequently by default that I rarely get to see them as I tend to
run 'yum update' manually once a day anyway.
Okay, I found another solution for my problem:
On
http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/07/16/getting-yum-updates-by-e-mail/
I found a script that will be executed every hour by a crontab. For
watching my mailbox on /var/spool/mail/heiko I use the
xfce4-mailwatcher-plugin and for reading those mails I use Alpine.
--
Regards,
Heiko Adams
9:34 a.m.
On 10/08/11 20:40, Christoph Wickert wrote:
The only solutions I am aware of:
1. Patch the xfce4-smartpm-plugin for xfce4-panel 4.8
2. Package Panu's update icon (see above list thread)
Regards,
Christoph
Resurrecting an old thread.
Came across this via Google
Would this script still work F16?
cat genmon-yum.sh
#!/bin/bash
updates=$( yum check-update )
if [ $? = 100 ]
then
echo -e
"<img>/usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/emblems/emblem-important.png</img>"
echo -e "<tool>Updates Available</tool>"
echo -e "<click>gpk-update-viewer</click>"
else
echo -e
"<img>/usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions/dialog-ok.png</img>"
echo -e "<tool>all updates applied</tool>"
echo -e "<click>gpk-update-viewer</click>"
fi
From:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=264726
jwmueller
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Frank Murphy
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6:19 a.m.
New subject: Script Works was Re: Update notifications?
On 15/11/11 15:34, Frank Murphy wrote:
The script:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=264726
(jwmueller)
<snipped>
Changed:
updates=$( yum check-update )
to
updates=$( yum check-update -q ) //*in case of repo errors */
I just created the bottom icon
to a 2x1px to match the panel colour.
and the time to 3600 seconds in genmon, so it refreshes every hour.
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Regards,
Frank Murphy
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