pyupdatesd: A Yum Updates Tray Icon for XFCE

[Noah Petherbridge]

@Heiko:

I just installed the Fedora 19 Alpha in VirtualBox, downloaded 
pyupdatesd and then modified its configuration section to change the 
"interval" from 900 seconds down to 10 (to get quicker feedback on 
whether the script is working or not). It worked for me. After about 10 
seconds from running the script, the tray icon and message appeared, and 
clicking it brought me to the yumex GUI.

This script waits /at least/ until the interval is first reached (i.e. 
15 minutes after the script is run, in the default configuration), 
before it runs `yum check-update` to see if there are updates. When 
there are, `yum check-update` exits with status 100, and that's how the 
script knows when to show the icon and notification. If this isn't 
working, can you try debugging it? Around this part of the code, you can 
have it print the status and output of check-update:

         if int(time()) >= next_check:
             status, output = commands.getstatusoutput(c['check'])
             status = status >> 8

    +       print "status:", status
    +       print "output:", output

             # Updates?
             if status == 100:

Also the results of running, in bash: `yum check-update; echo $?`

@Frank:

Make sure you're running the script from within X11 (so that $DISPLAY is 
set). I see that error message if I attempt to run the script from text 
mode. ;) In my XFCE desktop, adding the script to my session startup 
list works for me.

    $ cat ~/.config/autostart/Update\ Daemon.desktop
    [Desktop Entry]
    Encoding=UTF-8
    Version=0.9.4
    Type=Application
    Name=Update Daemon
    Comment=
    Exec=/home/kirsle/bin/pyupdatesd
    OnlyShowIn=XFCE;
    StartupNotify=false
    Terminal=false
    Hidden=false

-Noah

On 05/26/2013 05:00 AM, xfce-request at lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 09:37:52 +0200
> From: Heiko Adams <heiko.adams at gmail.com>
> To: Fedora Xfce users and developers <xfce at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Re: pyupdatesd: A Yum Updates Tray Icon for XFCE
> Message-ID: <51A1BBD0.2020707 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> Hi,
> it looks like your script doesn't work on Fedora 19. I've tested it this
> morning and absolutely nothing happened. No errormessages but also no
> notifications about new updates - but updates were available.
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 09:41:10 +0100
> From: Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com>
> To: xfce at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: pyupdatesd: A Yum Updates Tray Icon for XFCE
> Message-ID: <51a1caa8.c248b40a.5742.ffffb486 at mx.google.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
> On Fri, 24 May 2013 14:15:50 -0700
> Noah Petherbridge <root at kirsle.net> wrote:
>
> Fedora 18.x86_64
>
> traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/etc/sysconfig/pyupdatesd", line 55, in <module>
>      import gtk
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py",
> line 64, in <module> _init()
>    File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py",
> line 52, in _init _gtk.init_check()
> RuntimeError: could not open display
>
> -- Regards, Frank - I check for new mail app. 20min www.frankly3d.com

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