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: >> 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. > 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. -- Regards,
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