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getting notified of updates in xfce

Wheezy-amd64

I scoured through synaptic and google trying to find if there was a package that would allow getting notified of updates in xfce.

I saw one possible solutions as xfapplet, but it appears to be only available in squeeze and sid.

Quote:

The XfApplet Plugin is a plugin for the Xfce 4 Panel which allows one to use applets designed for the Gnome Panel inside the Xfce Panel. You can think of XfApplet as a tiny Gnome Panel that lives inside the Xfce Panel and allows you to show the same applets that the Gnome Panel is capable of showing.

I tried building from source, but after I satisfied most dependencies, it got stuck on libpanel-applet-dev, and wouldn't complete the ./configure.

I finally cobbled together my own solution this morning:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...nt-4175460142/

Any other solutions that exist right now for wheezy that I missed? Thanks...

I don't use XFCE on a regular basis, but I think you can use update-notifier on XFCE (at least, it worked last time I tried). Once you've installed it you will probably have to add it to the startup XFCE services.

Thanks, odiseo. I found update-notifier under the section Gnome Desktop Environment and it only needed a few deps so I installed it. Then I went to settings -> session and startup -> application autostart and saw it in the list and auto-magically checked.

I would expect that will work, so I'm going to mark the thread solved.

Using Jessie now. I switched to "testing/Jessie" several months ago (upgraded from Wheezy, not a fresh installation)

update-notifier hasn't worked since the switch.

I found this related bug, but haven't figured out the problem yet: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...cgi?bug=710565

I have gnome-packagekit installed. I use Xfce.

Code:

dpkg -l gnome-packagekit

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold

| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend

|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)

||/ Name          Version      Architecture Description

+++-==============-============-============-=================================

ii  gnome-packagek 3.14.0-1    i386

My sources.list:

Code:

deb ftp://debian.cites.illinois.edu/pub/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free

deb ftp://debian.cites.illinois.edu/pub/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free

deb ftp://ftp.deb-multimedia.org jessie main non-free

I'm not using XFCE or gnome-packagekit/update-notifier (I manually upgrade my system through the CLI every day), but according to this link (post #11), GTK is compatible with gnome-session only. Not sure if there is a fix for this though, but it might be worth to check the link.

@odiseo77: Thank you. I think I'll just use this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...nt-4175460142/

Great. In case you use conky, I have these lines in my ~/.conkyrc file (they were taken from someone who created a special conky configuration named Conky Colors):

Code:

# |--UPDATES

${goto 32}Updates: ${alignr}${font Ubuntu:style=Bold:size=8}${color1}${execi 360 aptitude search "~U" | wc -l | tail}${color}${font} ${color2}Paquetes${color}

In case you're interested, the whole configuration and instructions are here.

Cheers.