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.
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@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,
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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
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 -
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:
- Patch the xfce4-smartpm-plugin for xfce4-panel 4.8 2. Package
Panu's update icon (see above list thread)
- 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.
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 [ $? = 100 ] then echo -e "<img>/usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/emblems/emblem-important.png</img>" echo -e "<tool>Updates Available</tool>" echo -e "<click>gpk-update-viewer</click>" else echo -e "<img>/usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions/dialog-ok.png</img>" echo -e "<tool>all updates applied</tool>" echo -e "<click>gpk-update-viewer</click>" fi
From: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=264726 jwmueller
On 15/11/11 15:34, Frank Murphy wrote:
The script: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=264726 (jwmueller)
<snipped> Changed: updates=$( 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.