kpackagekit does not show in systray

[Martin (KDE)]

Am Sonntag, 16. Januar 2011 schrieb Martin (KDE):
> Am Sonntag, 16. Januar 2011 schrieb Martin (KDE):
> > Am Sonntag, 16. Januar 2011 schrieb Rex Dieter:
> > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, Martin (KDE) wrote:
> > > > Hallo
> > > > 
> > > > the last years I used to use yum-updatesd to automatically
> > > > update my system. But as some users switched of the computer
> > > > during update I thought of switching to packagekit (the KDE
> > > > variant). On my newly setup laptop this works as expected. I
> > > > got a Icon in the systemtray if there are updates detected.
> > > > 
> > > > On my other computer (the one previously updated with
> > > > yum-updatesd) this does not work. I have set up the
> > > > kpackagekit to check every hour but I got no icon in the
> > > > systray. There are updates pending (yum in the command line
> > > > told so). How do I get kpackagekit working?
> 
> Hm, a newly created user got this update icon in systray. This
> seems to be a user base setting.

The difference is that the newly created user is a local one (local 
passwd). The other users which don't get kpackagekit icons 
automatically are users stored in a global ldap directory. This is not 
bound to one single computer. All my four computers have the same 
problem (so all are on an up to date f14 system).

Martin

> 
> Martin
> 
> > > The kapackagekit systray icon thingy is an autostart item on
> > > login, ie, did you relogin after installing it?
> > 
> > Jep, I relogin and I restarted the computer.
> > 
> > > If you run kpk by hand, does it display any updates available?
> > 
> > Yes, If I run kpackagekit from command line the systray Icons are
> > there and the updates are visible.
> > 
> > Martin
> > 
> > > -- Rex