kpackagekit does not show in systray

Martin (KDE) kde at fahrendorf.de
Tue Jan 25 16:01:01 UTC 2011


Am Samstag, 22. Januar 2011 schrieb Martin (KDE):
> Am Sonntag, 16. Januar 2011 schrieb Martin (KDE):
> > Am Sonntag, 16. Januar 2011 schrieb Martin (KDE):
> > 
> > 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).

OK, I found the solution. somewhere in the internet I found the note 
that kded starts kpackagekitsmarticon for update checking. In a ubuntu 
forum I found another hint that kdedrc config file is not set up 
correctly (contains wrong data) if kpackagekitsmarticon is not working 
as expected. after removing this file and relogin the automatic update 
checking of kpackagekit is working as expected.

my guess: this config file was a leftover from old kde3 days and 
prevents at least kpackagekit from working as expected. I have no idea 
of the details though.

Martin


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