[Bug 1246364] Re: update-notifier does not show a tray icon in xubuntu

[Pascal Mons]

Sometimes the update-notifier packages gets updated by Ubuntu. Then if
you don't recompile / build new packages with the patches provided by
Forest PPA, you may loose capabilities given by the patches.

You can simply block any update to the update-notifier packages by
running these Terminal cmd. lines:

$ sudo echo "update-notifier hold" | dpkg --set-selections
$ sudo echo "update-notifier-common hold" | dpkg --set-selections

To revert the changes:

$ sudo echo "update-notifier install" | dpkg --set-selections
$ sudo echo "update-notifier-common install" | dpkg --set-selections

You can as well set it in a Bash script block-upd-update-notifier:

#!/bin/sh
#
if [ $(id -u) != 0 ]; then
   echo "This script requires root permissions"
   sudo "$0"
   exit
fi
echo "update-notifier hold" | dpkg --set-selections
echo "update-notifier-common hold" | dpkg --set-selections

The same goes for unblock-upd-update-notifier

I guess the change was an Ubuntu policy change about the updates as they
like to force them a bit like Microsoft does. I don't expect them to
ever revert to the previous behaviour.

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Title:
  update-notifier does not show a tray icon in xubuntu

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Confirmed
Status in update notifier:
  New
Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  update-notifier does not show a tray icon/notification in xubuntu 13.10 anymore. Instead the software updater window appears minimized, when updates are available.
  Additionally I tried to trigger the 'System Restart Required'-notification manually by adapting /var/run/reboot-required, but no notification was displayed (although it shows up in motd).
  As a side note: I got a 'there is something wrong with updates'-notification by removing update-notifier-common while update-notifier was running.

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